The main stone church dedicated to the Merciful Mother of God was built in 1856 with funds raised through voluntary donations and was consecrated on August 20, 1857, by Bishop Macarius of Tambov. In 1860, the monastery began its expansion according to the design of architect Chetverikov in the Russian-Byzantine style. Two chapels were added to the church: on the southern side in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord and on the northern side in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh, the miracle worker.
In 1993, the church was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, and the clergy and parishioners of the Dimitrievsky Church in the city began fundraising for its restoration. The monastery was revived on April 17, 1997, and on August 31 of the same year, the church with two chapels in honor of St. Sergius of Radonezh and St. Seraphim of Sarov was consecrated. From 2006 to 2010, restoration work was carried out in the cathedral church and the monastic cell building, and the monastery cemetery was improved. In September 2010, the building of the cell block was returned. The Ryazan diocese is seeking the release of the church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Burning Bush," which is used as a classroom for the Kadom Technological College, as well as the building of the former nursing corps.
By 2012, the monastery honors the icon of the Mother of God "Merciful," the Bogolyubskaya icon of the Mother of God, and the icon of the Mother of God "Sign." The monastic image of St. Great Martyr Panteleimon was returned from the Dimitrievsky Cathedral in Kadom. Since February 2008, by the blessing of Archbishop Pavel of Ryazan and Kasimov, a reliquary with particles of the relics of St. John the Baptist, Great Martyr Panteleimon, and the hierarchs John Chrysostom, Theodorit, Bishop of Ryazan, Pitirim, Bishop of Tambov, Gideon of Athos, Charitina, Eupraxia, the virgin of Tavenskaya, and the venerables Kuksha of Odessa, Alexandra and Martha of Diveyevo, and Basil of Moscow has been kept in the cathedral. Not far from the monastery are two holy springs, not mentioned in pre-revolutionary descriptions, dedicated to St. John the Baptist and the unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian.
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