Military garrison that protected the monastery during the Polish-Lithuanian siege of 1608-1610's, located on the western side near the laurels and form Streletskoye and Pushkarskaya Sloboda. Through the efforts of the inhabitants of these lands to 1645 there appears a wooden church in honor of Our Lady of Kazan. The temple was consecrated a chapel in honor of the prophet Elijah, in whose name the founder of the Monastery of St. Sergius of Radonezh sought to create a church, but during his lifetime he did not succeed.

In 1727 Ilyinsky chapel separated from the Kazan temple and build anew nearby is a separate church. But after nineteen years there was a fire that completely destroyed both buildings. A year later, the congregation Elias Church reduced, and appears at the site of Kazan chapel stood here for five years. In 1752, instead of the back of the chapel erected Kazan Church, which existed until the mid XX century. Now the church of Our Lady of Kazan does not exist.

In 1958, the dilapidated temple decided to disassemble, and in its place establish the cross. He recalls that there was a rare tiered structure. High wooden bushel chopped is the basis for the pyramid of the three octagons. Pink outside the church with gilded cross and head viewed in the full height. Summary of the dome was painted artfully Lavra master and elder Elias temple Malyshev Vinogradov and iconostasis made by his son Constantine.

Church of Elijah the Prophet not only survived to our time, but was the only Sergiev Posad, which operated during the Soviet era. Stone it has become, since the 60s of the XVIII century. Brick church took in the monastery yard oliflennom. In 1773, Paul spent Lavra monk consecrated the church of the Prophet Elijah and his chapel in honor of Dmitry Rostovsky. Chapel in the name of the Iberian Icon of the Mother of God appeared here after another century, in 1878.

Three volume located on one axis and are typical of many churches of Sergiev Posad, form and Ilyinsky church. To cubic quadrangle adjacent to the east - the high semicircular apse, to the west - wide refectory with three-tiered bell tower. Figured the roof of the main two-part volume carries a drum with a small cupola. The Baroque style, which carried out the external decoration of the church, is shown here in all its glory. Ornate frames bleached numerous windows highlighted with a red background walls. Complement facades portals, twin pilasters and wide eaves. The arches and walls painted the interior of the temple Elias Ivan Malyshev, and this master is made and five-tiered gilded iconostasis. In 1890 the church acquired another two outbuildings: a room of the library and ovens.

In 1946, for the Cathedral of the Assumption Trinity-St Elias Church donated some publications from its library and the church utensils, as well as the monastery church moved from one parish choirs. In the second half of the XX century Church of Elijah the Prophet became an architectural monument of national significance and is taken under the protection of the state. Now at the church Sunday school and the parish library.