The Sorrows community in the Pokrovsky district was founded in 1902 in the village of Khmelevo, located in the Funikovskaya volost by the Sheredar River. Ivan Mikhailovich Meshkov, a native of these places, a second-guild merchant from Moscow and an honorary citizen of Moscow, initiated and financed the creation of the monastery in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow." The land for the construction of the monastery was provided by local peasants. The community had a wooden church in honor of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow," built between 1901 and 1903 by architect I. T. Baryutin, with adjoining monastic quarters arranged in a former estate house. The church housed a four-tiered iconostasis with 73 large icons. During the closure of the church in the Soviet period, they disappeared, and only the icon of Saint Catherine remained, in honor of which a domestic church was consecrated in the monastic cell building on December 31, 2000.

From the ruined stone Holy Gates, an alley leads to the stone bell tower, where the first floor housed a small church of the Assumption of the Mother of God, an altar, and a burial vault. The guesthouse and clergy houses were wooden. The monastery was surrounded by a wooden fence, along which grew alleys of birch and oak trees. The entire territory of the monastery was planted with fruit trees. The bell tower was built from bricks produced at the monastery's brick factory. After the monastery was closed, 9 bells were removed from the bell tower, and the factory was requisitioned in 1919.

Every year, three processions were held in the Sorrows community: on July 26, the day of the church's foundation; on September 4, in memory of its consecration; and on October 24, the feast day of the monastery. In 1921, there were 72 monks living in the monastery, who organized an agricultural cooperative for sustenance. A note on the land ownership of the monastery in 1921 stated that the nuns worked the land to provide food, heating, and fodder for livestock. They were poor, of peasant origin, some orphans, and worked physically.

The monastic cell building, constructed in 1903 from bricks made at the monastery, and a large stone inscribed with events related to the founding of the monastery have survived.

The monastery was closed in 1924, the nuns were expelled, and there are reports that some were forcibly taken away and shot. The abbess, Mother Meletina, died in the village of Khalino, not far from the monastery. The site of the women's monastery was turned into a colony for juvenile offenders. Subsequently, the territory of the monastery housed a school, a village council, a club, a cinema, and a library in succession. The wooden church of the icon of the Mother of God "Joy of All Who Sorrow" was sold for scrap, the abbot's house recently burned down. The outbuildings, fence, clergy houses, guesthouse, and chapel were dismantled. In 2000, the monastery was transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church, and monastic activities resumed there. Currently, a bell tower has been added to the cell building.