For more than five hundred years turned the ancient village of Manga, situated on the banks of the same river. It is situated 12 km from the village of yarn. Manga village in the north-east side rests on a steep hill, and on the other it limits the river wetlands. Therefore, the settlement has the form of a strip. Two-storey, decorated with carved architraves, houses lined the street. This is typical of the North Karelian village. Nativity of the Virgin chapel is visible from anywhere on the hills covered with pines and spruces infrequent. It was built in the second half of the 18th century. Its appearance and size, suggests that it was originally built as a church.

A small tent bell tower stands on the pillars and completed a small dome, 2nd dome located on the roof of the chapel. For the cupola of the chapel is clearly too big and this architectural disparity indicates that the building is built on the type of the Russian Church, but later it was changed to the local population in the North-Karelian style.

Chapel in Manga is recognized separately from the village thanks to his well-known book era VP Semenov-Tyan-Shan "Russia. Complete geographical description of our fatherland ", which was published at the beginning of the twentieth century. The image of this chapel is found in guidebooks as the type of the northern Karelian structure.

Through research, you can set the history of the construction of this monument of architecture. At first chapel was built without a steeple. In the first half of the 19th century, it underwent a thorough reconstruction. The porch was converted into a hall. North porch was dismantled and produced outside the casing gallery planks, then the door is integrated into the vestibule at the entrance from the south porch. Apparently, while the belfry was added.

The building is repaired and in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Plain roof was replaced by a clipped straight planks. Sheathed with boards and porch were also inside and outside of the whole structure. Shoals of windows at the top and bottom rails bell towers were made in the form of Luchkova form. All the buildings were painted crosses covered with metal sheet. Type iconostasis was changed, if earlier icons were simply inserted into the trough hewn logs - tyablovy type, after the reconstruction of the iconostasis began to be used with dividing struts - framework an order type.

Structurally, the chapel is the traditional form of this building - this is higher rectangular temple portion and the adjacent frame with a refectory and a porch covered with gable roof with a common dome. Log cabin chapel is made of the most commonly used type in the villages - "the cup". The roof over the main, prayer often covered with red planks with rounded ends. Above the porch and the refectory roof is made of wooden architecture is traditional for the Russian North tackless by using the "chickens" - roots of young trees and "streams" - specific abutments. Walls inside hewn without rounded corners. The foundation is made of natural stone.

Ridge log chapel and dining room decorated with carved crest of repeating triangles. On the edge of the triangular gable roof attached carved boards - pricheliny. Dome of the chapel are covered with onion shape and shingles in the form of triangular scales, windows - arch-luchkovye and decorated with carved profiled cornice.

The interior of the chapel largely lost. In the refectory preserved installed along the walls of the bench, decorated with sculpted balusters and carved border. On one wall of the left tyabla with floral pattern. Near windows preserved in the chapel choir with decorated vertical bars of the fence.

Earlier, the chapel had two ancient icons of "Signs" and "Nicholas", who were transferred in 1957 to the Russian Museum. The size of the icons 60 x 70 cm. According to the type of writing they can be written in the Novgorod icon painting workshop, and probably in the XVI century were transported to the region.

The chapel is not currently operating, was restored in 1970, in 1987-1988 was removed paneling. The length of the building is 14 m wide 2 6 46 m.