The Pühtitsa Assumption Convent is located on the Mother of God Mountain near the village of Kuremäe in Estonia and is associated with the names of many saints and ascetics of the Russian Orthodox Church.

Near the village of Kuremäe lies a hill that has long been called "sacred." Here grows an oak tree, which, according to dendrologists, is at least a thousand years old. It is likely that this place was a pagan shrine of Finno-Ugric tribes. In the 16th century, two Estonian shepherds saw a woman with an otherworldly glow on the hill. Frightened, they returned to the village for their fellow villagers and discovered an icon of the Dormition of the Mother of God at the site of the vision. From that moment, Pühtitsa became an Orthodox shrine.

A wooden chapel was built at the site of the icon's discovery, where it remained until the construction of the Orthodox monastery began. Prince Sergey Vladimirovich Shakhovsky, the governor of Estonia, and his wife Elizabeth Dmitrievna Shakhovskaya actively contributed to the establishment of this holy place. In 1885, a wooden church with a bell tower was built on the Mother of God Mountain, near the oak, where the chapel and the icon were placed. From that time, an Orthodox parish formed in Pühtitsa, which performed not only religious but also educational and charitable functions. In the city of Jõhvi, seventeen kilometers from Kuremäe, an orphanage, a school, a hospital, and a pharmacy were opened. These institutions were planned to be moved closer to the monastery after its establishment.

On April 29, 1891, the Mother of God Mountain was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, and on August 15 of the same year, the Pühtitsa Assumption Women's Community with an orphanage and a medical facility was opened.

Three years later, Pühtitsa became a place of prayer and assistance to those in need. The popularity of the community grew so much that Princess E. D. Shakhovskaya appealed to the Holy Synod to transform the community into a monastery. This petition was granted on October 23, 1893. At the time of the monastery's founding, it housed 21 novices, 22 wards of the orphanage, and two sisters of mercy.

Today, about 120 nuns and novices live in the monastery.