The philologist Lazar Afanasyev [sah] (Russian: Лазарь Андреевич Афанасьев; 1952–2017), also known by his ethnic name "Téris", studied shamanism in the Soviet years.

Together they requested from the beginning of the 1990s permission to construct the temple: in 1999, by a decree of the republican authorities, the House of Purification (Archie Diete), a wood, glass and metal wonder composed in the form of three gigantic yurts, was laid down and opened in 2002.

After the new President of Yakutia was elected in 2002, the pro-Orthodox course of the authorities began, and so representatives of ethnic religions ceased to be invited to inter-religious meetings.

Religious and political activists demand its return, as well as the "Three Birch" National Park promised by the authorities and a pagan school in Yakutsk.

It has the Aiyy houses and urasas (birch-bark dwellings) in the villages in which common prayers and bloodless sacrifices with fermented mare's milk are performed.