Church of the Synaxis of the Mother of God with the Chapel of St. Michael Maleinos in Mikhalitsky Monastery

The church with a refectory built in Mikhalitsky Monastery in the 1550s was originally called the Annunciation Church. It was later probably rebuilt and reconsecrated in honor of the Synaxis of the Mother of God. The 16th-century building has not survived; only its foundations and fragments of the floor remain. In the second half of the 17th century, a refectory and a new Church of the Synaxis of the Most Holy Mother of God with a chapel of St. Michael Maleinos were erected on the old foundation. Around the turn of the 17th-18th centuries, wooden vaults in the church and refectory were replaced with stone, new roofs were installed, and a stone bell tower replaced the wooden one. With some later alterations, the building remained in this form until the Great Patriotic War. After wartime damage, it was restored mainly to its 17th-century appearance. Today the church is used by the Novgorod Old Believer Pomorian community.