The predecessor of the church of St. Nicholas was a small wooden church, built in the early 18th century in the name of the Ascension. Two way dedicated the Blessed Virgin Mary and the Prophet Elijah, were the main attractions of the church. At Salmi parish registers began to lead off in 1806 and in one of them there were, in the early nineteenth century wooden church burned down.

In honor of the 55th anniversary of the victory over the Turkish fleet at Cesme, with the assistance of the maid of honor Anna Alekseevna Orel - Chesmenskaya and money merchant Fyodor Makovkin, in 1814 it began construction of a new stone church in honor of St. Nicholas. The stone church, whose construction was completed in 1824, was completed in the neoclassical style. For a long time after it remained as the largest church, and she was the only stone building in the border of Karelia.

The church was designed by the Finnish master KL Engel, famous for its buildings in Helsinki. According to the authors, the church was symmetrical, connected by a longitudinal axis of the bell tower. Semicircular dome covering the main part of the temple, built in the form of an octahedron. Gold-plated cross decorated dome itself. The building can be accessed through several entrances - from the side facades, through the bell tower from the west. On the flat facade outlines aisles were decorated porticoes and above the main entrance was installed with window visor.

Laid out on the large stones three-tiered bell tower, adorned with 11 bells. The weight of the large bell was about 1700 kg. Plastered brick walls of the church were decorated with corbels and cornice facade pilasters. Outside the church was painted in yellow color, and decoration and pilasters in white. Tin roof was painted green.

Although none of the statements from the church in 1826 is said that the temple was remarkable and miraculous icons, but we know that within the church were installed three altars decorated with rich iconostasis. The inner walls of the temple were decorated with icons and columns and arches beautifully painted frescoes.

The two-meter wooden fence surrounds the entire church complex and the cemetery. Temple land over 5 hectares, belonged to the Countess Anna Orlova. If the church were two priests, one deacon, deacon, two, two sexton.

The church named after St. Nicholas - patron saint of travelers and sailors, was a tribute to the bride Anna Orlova - Nicholas Dolgoruky, who died in Finland. As commander in the war against Sweden by Russian troops, he died without ever knowing the consent of Alexander I on his marriage to Anne.

Initially, the church was divided into two parts of the wall: a heated winter and summer, where services are held only in the warmer months.

Upon completion of the construction of the temple, the Anna Orlova was bought by merchants from St. Petersburg Fedul and Sergei Gromov. Now the fate of the church rested on their shoulders. The brothers paid all the expenses and salaries of the priests. Temple repeatedly repaired with donations. In 1833, new gate repaired the porch and roof. In 1859, the altar was restored and have built on the bell tower. In 1900 built three furnaces in the summer and is now part of the church services could go year-round. In 1914 the church conducted electricity. In 1934, it was updated to the road leading to the temple.

During the Great Patriotic War, the church was badly damaged. In Soviet times, no one was in a hurry to restore it, and as a result the roof collapsed and the walls are overgrown with bushes. In our time, we decided to restore the temple, but the money was only enough for a wooden church, which burned down in 2006. Cause of the fire remained unclear.