On December 5, 1564, the consecration of the existing brick church took place. It was built at the expense of the merchants of the living room of the hundred, Yakov Ivanov Konstantinov, the Quarter of Mikhailov son of Sychev, Vladimir Klimov son of Toropchaninov, as well as donations from ordinary citizens who lived in her parish. The construction of the new Kozmodemyanskaya church coincided with the economic heyday of Murom. According to some researchers, Pskov craftsmen Barma and Posnik could have been the builders of the temple. Subsequently, Murom suffered greatly from the epidemic of 1570, during which many churches fell into disrepair, losing their parishioners. It was probably then that the decision was made to establish a convent at Kozmodemyanskaya Church. The exact date of its opening is not known.
However, he is mentioned in the scribe's book of 1623/24: "Yes, outside the city, on the landing by the Oka River, on the shore of the monastery of Devich Kuzmodem[b] in PodokstovyeYanskoy, and in it the church of the stone of the great miracle workers Kozma and the House of Yang." Deprived of the financial support of wealthy people, in the first half of the 17th century. Kozmodemyansky convent existed by renting out hay fields belonging to the monastery. They were located across the river, in the Sechen meadows. The Murom census book of 1646 no longer mentions the monastery. There were twelve courtyards at Kozmodemyanskaya Church. At the beginning of the XVIII century. The following Murom merchant families lived in them: Klepikov, Pakholkov, Linkov, Strakhov, Yelin, Patyrmin. However, a significant part of the parishioners were ordinary rural people, about whom it is said: "they are fed by gardening and estate work."
The Church of Kozma and Demyan is unique in its architecture. It was decorated with a tall, slender brick tent. The church had been standing for many years without proper repairs, so on April 6, 1868, the tent suddenly collapsed. The surviving belongings and liturgical books were transferred to the nearby Smolenskaya Church. Subsequently, attempts were repeatedly made to find funds for the restoration of the ancient temple. But the money raised was barely enough to strengthen the hill on which the church stood. It was only in 1908 that work was carried out to partially preserve the unique architectural monument. Kozmodemyanskaya church was covered with an iron pyramidal roof, laid on new wooden rafters. "If proper measures are not taken in a timely manner to re–strengthen the coast and restore the temple," wrote N.P. Travchetov, an expert in local antiquities, "then in the near future Murom residents will see only a pile of garbage on the site of this sacred monument of their native antiquity." In the pre-revolutionary years, no funds were found for the restoration of the Kozmodemyanskaya church.
In Soviet times, Kozmodemyanskaya Church was under the jurisdiction of the Museum of Local lore. According to the decree of Glavnauki (an organization engaged in the study and preservation of monuments of material culture), the city museum was obliged to maintain the temple in proper condition and take care of its safety. However, all the "worries" were reduced to a minimum: whitewashing the walls and patching up the dilapidated roof. But even for these purposes, funds were needed. In order to somehow reduce the cost of maintaining the architectural monument of the XVI century, the church premises were rented out from time to time to various organizations for a fee. It is documented that in 1933 the Kozmodemyanskaya church housed the ski station of the local factory named after him. Ordzhonikidze. On January 7, 1939, the church of Kozma and Demyan was included in the list of monuments of centralized state protection. During the Great Patriotic War, the church building was empty.
In the 1980s, a number of researchers regained interest in the ancient temple. In 1983, architect N.A. Bespalov outlined his vision for the restoration of the Kozmodemyansk Church tent. The researcher outlined ways to solve the problem of restoring the tent. Among them: the search for photographs of the monument before its destruction; scientific substantiation of the authorship of Postnik Yakovlev in the creation of the monument project; using a computer, grapho-analytical analysis of tent temples created by Pskov craftsmen in the 16th century, followed by the creation of a mathematical model of the monument, taking it as the basis for a proportional system.
In 1988, Vladimir architect-restorer V.M. Anisimov dedicated an article to Kozmodemyansk church. The researcher tried to prove the involvement of Ivan the Terrible in the construction of the temple and came to the conclusion that the church of Kozma and Demyan was both a "sovereign" and a "secular" building. According to V.M. Anisimov, the customer of the building itself was the tsar, and the internal attributes of the church service (iconostasis, throne, etc.) were built by the world, that is, at the expense of the townspeople. This judgment was based on the opinion borrowed from pre-revolutionary local history literature that the tsar gave 500 rubles. for the establishment of the church. The reliability of the latest information is highly questionable.
In the late 1990s, the issue of transferring the Kozmodemyansky temple to the Russian Orthodox Church arose. At present, the temple requires strict and professional architectural and historical supervision. The technical condition of the monument is of concern.
In 2009, a temporary tent roof was erected over the ancient Kozmodemyanskaya church. Unfortunately, the historical appearance of the building has not yet been restored.