Singing Chambers

The largest living space in the Novodevichy Monastery is the Singing Chambers. This white stone building was built between 1718 and 1726. It is a single-storey building with a length of about one hundred meters and a width of fifteen meters. The entrances are decorated with porches with icons above the doors. At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the building was used as an orphanage, then converted into fraternal cells, and later inhabited by singing nuns, who gave the chambers their name.