The Church of St. John the Theologian in Kurylivka (Kup’yans’k District, Kharkiv Oblast) was one of the oldest wooden churches in Sloboda Ukraine.

Its history has been quite convoluted. Researcher A. Paramonov claims that it was built in 1872 based on a design by Bondarev, an engineer at the Kharkiv State Chamber. However, its history is much older, and the church has been located in three different settlements, undergoing alterations and becoming visually simpler with each move. It was built between 1792 and 1795 in the settlement of Zaoskolye (a suburb of Kup’yans’k), featuring three domes and five tiers, in the tradition of Ukrainian folk architecture. In 1821, it was moved to the village of Petropavlovka, where in 1840 the upper tiers collapsed due to a storm and were not restored. In the 1860s, the church was moved again, to Kurylivka (which had since changed its name to Novo-Aleksandrovka). Engineer Bondarev simplified the design even further, but elements of the 18th-century church were still preserved (the ground floor).

The website of the Izyum Diocese states that the church was originally built as the Church of Saints Peter and Paul in 1822 in the village of Gnilitsky, on the site of another dilapidated church from the early 18th century, which had been moved to Gnilitsky from the settlement of Zaoskolye (near Kup’yans’k). In honor of the church, the village of Gnilitsky was renamed Petropavlovka. In 1864, the dilapidated church from Petropavlovka was moved to Novoaleksandrovka (now Kurilovka). In Novoaleksandrovka, it was originally named after Alexander Nevsky; in 1872, it was consecrated in honor of St. John the Theologian. In the 1930s, the dome and bell tower were demolished; the church was used as a grain storage facility and later as a movie theater. In 1941–42, the church was converted into a dining hall.

Services resumed in 1943, and the bell tower was restored in the late 1990s.

In 2022, the church was destroyed during the fights in Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.