The Diocesan Women’s School occupied a complex of three stone buildings, united by two-storey annexes. Founded in 1866, the school was originally located in the Ioanno-Vvedensky women’s monastery near Tobolsk. In 1878, with its transfer to the city limits, the diocese bought for the needs of the institution a dwelling house from the merchant of the second guild Mikhail Pelishchev on Bolshaya Ilyinskaya street.

In 1883, 88 girls studied at the school. A hostel was built that could accommodate up to 100 people. In 1884, the house church of the Entry of the Most Holy Theotokos into the temple was built at the school. By 1917, 276 pupils were studying at the school. Upon graduation, at the age of 17-19, young girls served as teachers in parish schools and literacy schools.

In Soviet times, secondary school No. 13 was located in the buildings of the diocesan school, then an evening school. The “October” cinema was located in the premises of the house church.

Now the building houses the Tobolsk icon-painting school under the Tobolsk-Tyumen diocese.

Address: Tobolsk, . S. Remezova st., 11