The first christian church of Viena Karelia was built in Panozero.

The present church, which in the 1930s was converted into a cultural centre, was built in the 1850s. The church and the graveyard are surrounded by a handsome stone wall, which indeed lost most of its stones to building construction, when the so-called New Panozero flourished in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Graves are no longer visible in the graveyard.