🏛 Refectory Chambers and Church of the Nativity of Christ

Истра, Ново-Иерусалимский монастырь

Late-17th-century refectory chambers with the adjoining Church of the Nativity of Christ (1686–1692) inside the monastery walls.

The heated church with a refectory at the back wall of the Resurrection Cathedral was ordered by Tsarevna Sophia, who came to its consecration in 1685.
The Church of the Nativity of Christ at the Refectory Chambers was built from 1686 to 1692 in the Moscow Baroque style.
The church's four lower side chapels were consecrated almost a century later, in 1782–1789.
By the wall of the Massacre of the Innocents side chapel, monks made a Bethlehem cave display, a vertep.
In 1874 Archimandrite Leonid (Kavelin) opened the Patriarch Nikon museum in the refectory chambers, one of Russia's first church museums.
In December 1941, during the retreat, German sappers blew up the monastery, and the Refectory Chambers burned.

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