On the site of the restored Alexander Nevsky Church once stood a women's monastery, completely destroyed in the 1930s-1940s. In 1892, on the site of the settlement of the righteous Sophronius of Iberia, priest Gavriil Petrovich Kudryavtsev built and consecrated a church in honor of the deliverance from mortal danger of His Imperial Highness, the Heir, Grand Duke Nikolai Alexandrovich in Japan. The church, which has two altars, was dedicated to Saint Blessed Grand Duke Alexander Nevsky and the icon of the Sign of the Mother of God. Small houses for future nuns began to be built around the church, and this place became known as the Alexander Nevsky Almshouse. On March 3, 1904, by decree of the Holy Synod, the almshouse was transformed into a women's dormitory. On May 7, 1907, the women's community was officially converted into a women's monastery by the decision of the Holy Synod.