The one-story stone building of the monastery dining hall, elongated from west to east, is located near the southern gates of the monastery. It was built in 1873 on the site of an old, dilapidated building. The funds for construction were provided by the monastery, and the work was overseen by the abbot Savva. The facades of the new building are decorated in the neo-Russian style, featuring semi-columns and two-tiered kokoshniks as the main decorative elements. The interior is designed with a barrel vault and arches. The dining hall, illuminated from three sides, was located to the east, opposite which was the kitchen. The entrance to the dining hall from the north side was adorned with a ceremonial porch with a cross. This building is an interesting example of the stylization of ancient Russian architecture.
In 1905, Moscow merchant Nikolai Alexeyevich Myshletsov expressed a desire to arrange an altar in the dining hall in honor of St. Seraphim of Sarov and to install an iconostasis. The builder of the monastery, hieromonk Olympius, appealed to the Established Cathedral of the Trinity-Sergius Lavra with a request to create a new dining hall church. However, the cathedral refused, citing that the five existing churches fully met the needs of the monastery and pilgrims. In the same year, the dining hall building was expanded: a new kitchen was added to the west side, and the old kitchen was combined with the dining hall into a single hall. The reconstruction project was developed by architect I.F. Meissner in June 1905.
After the monastery was closed in 1923, the dining hall building was used by various organizations and gradually fell into disrepair. By the time the monastery was revived in the 1990s, it was in an emergency state. In 1998-1999, a few years after the restoration work began, an extension was added to the northern facade of the building, and the dining hall underwent major repairs. In 2006, the hall of the dining room was painted by a group of artists from the workshop 'Kinovar'.
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