The onion domed church was built in 1917-1918 by Russian immigrant homesteaders, who had come to the United States in search of a better life.

[2] The active life of this parish was short-lived, as many of the people who had settled in the area for land left as they realized that the conditions of northern Minnesota only make for marginal farming.

Father Paul contacted the office of the late Archbishop John (Garklāvs) of Chicago; it was then learned that there was no record of the parish's existence.

Until the early 1980s, faithful from Minneapolis and Minnesota's northern Iron Range would gather at the church every July for the celebration of the feast of SS.

[3] There is also a cemetery one quarter of a mile from the church on an acre of land which was donated by Andrew Soroka (Sorokie), one of the founders and builders of the parish.