In the southeastern part of the territory surrounded by the Kanavka, there was a cemetery of the ancient monastery, where sisters and close laypeople were buried. In February 1854, the Penza noblewoman Darya Mikhailovna Kaminskaya, a relative of the abbess Ekaterina Ladyzhenskaya, requested permission to build a cemetery church in memory of her prematurely deceased son. The church was to be arranged near the cell and transformed into an altar for the priest and hieromonk Serafim. On July 30, 1856, the new church was consecrated in the name of the Transfiguration of the Lord. The simple wooden structure of the Far Desert of the venerable Serafim, darkened by time, was now located inside a larger building. In the corridor around it were displayed the clothing and belongings of the great ascetic under his full-length portrait, where he is depicted in black monastic attire and a hood.

In the 1950s, the building of the Transfiguration Church housed apartments for teachers of the district center. In the early 1970s, when a secondary school was being built on the site of the cemetery, the church building was dismantled, and the cemetery was destroyed.

From 2004 to 2008, the school building was reconstructed. The northern annex was converted into a hospital church. In 2008, during the feast of the Icon of the Mother of God, "Healer," Archbishop Georgiy of Nizhny Novgorod and Arzamas consecrated the temple in honor of this holy image.

During construction work around the hospital building, an unnamed burial was discovered, which was relocated to the east, and a cross was erected over it. This grave serves as a reminder that in the southeastern end of the Kanavka, there was a monastery cemetery before the revolution.

During the celebrations of the 250th anniversary of the birth of Venerable Serafim, the building was ceremoniously handed over to the Serafimo-Diveevsky Monastery, and its reconstruction began. On August 1, 2008, the building of the Medical Center was consecrated by Archbishop Georgiy with the participation of Metropolitan Nikolai from the Church of Greece. On October 1, 2008, during the feast in honor of the icon "Healer," Archbishop Georgiy consecrated the hospital church.

During Great Lent in 2009, the painting of the church began, carried out by Moscow artists Maxim Evgenievich and Irina Alexandrovna Mironov, with the participation of nun Hrisanfa Dolgatova. The work was completed in March 2010. The wall paintings of the church are oriented towards the frescoes of the Ferapontov Monastery, Decani, and Studenica, but were not copied; they were adapted to the architecture of the church. Some scenes reflecting the history of Diveevo were depicted for the first time. Since the church is dedicated to the Mother of God, the paintings are done on blue backgrounds, symbolizing the purity and virginity of the Mother of God. They can be divided into three cycles.

The main cycle, occupying the central and eastern parts of the vault, is dedicated to selected Marian feasts. The western part of the vault and the wall adjacent to the hospital depict Gospel scenes of healing the sick by the Savior and holy healers. The cycle on the southern wall in the lower register includes episodes from the life of Venerable Serafim, such as the healing of Manturov from a leg ailment and the nephew of the princess during the prayer of the venerable one. The northern wall presents the Diveevo miracles: the healing of the sick at the spring of Venerable Serafim, the healing of the possessed at the reliquary in the Trinity Cathedral, the appearance of the Mother of God to Saint Serafim Zvezdinsky at Kanavka, and the healing of the lame at Kanavka.