Nativity of the Mother of God Monastery, or the convent of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin in Grodno, built on the site where once stood the church Prechistenskaya. Mention Prechistenskaya church found in 1506 in the "Acts of western Russia." It was founded by Prince Glinsky, passing the name of Kiev governor Dmitry Putyata funds for the maintenance of the temple and the temple existed at the poorhouse. About hospice care as Sigismund II Augustus, who commanded it needs to allocate money from the proceeds of the royal estates. Church also owned land in the tract Olshansky. In 1614, cornet Kuntcevich Prechistenskaya bequeathed to the cathedral church of the Big parade in Grodno.

In the XVII century Orthodox church was handed over to the Uniates. Vasilisa Sapieha moved here three nuns for the establishment of Grodno female Basilian monastery. In 1642, Metropolitan Anthony Selyava handed monastery lands to the west of the temple Pretchistensky.

Wooden Basilian temple repeatedly burned and rebuilt. The devastating fires occurred there in 1647, 1654, 1720 and 1728, respectively.

After passing under the Russian jurisdiction Grodno, in 1843 Basilian monastery became an Orthodox Nativity of the Mother nunnery. To create Grodno moved from Orsha Monastery Abbess Athanasius with nuns and novices. In 1860, the nuns at the monastery organized an orphanage for girls.

In 1866, the arrival of the Emperor Alexander II in the monastery church was built Sergius of Radonezh.

In 1870 the convent was a rare miracle - mirotochenie list icon Our Lady of Vladimir. The nuns realized that their monastery blessed with a special grace. Miro that exudes an icon, was collected in a special reliquary in the shape of a cross, which still today is kept in the monastery. This icon during the First World War, was evacuated to St. Petersburg. After the First World War was the Polish city of Grodno, but Christmas was an Orthodox monastery. He was returned to the miracle-working Vladimir Icon.

The monastery existed until 1960, when the nuns were evicted from their walls in Zhirovitsky monastery and the miraculous icon of Vladimir confiscated and taken to Russia. She was in a suburban church in the village of Ermolino.

After the Soviet collapse in 1992 Nativity church was re-opened, the restoration of monastic churches, monasteries returned miraculous icon of Vladimir. Start peace monastic habitation was opened Sunday school for children.