The article reviews contemporary church building practices in Udmurtia. Stylistic tendencies in the church architecture are considered. Two approaches could be identified in church design and construction, representing two different creative methods of morphogenesis rendered in Russian by two stylizing-related terms: stilizatorstvo (faithful to the original) and stilizatsiya (less faithful to the original). These two concepts, used in the evaluation of the 1830s – early 20th century architecture, present two ways of interpreting historical architectural prototypes.