This unheated wooden [[church]] was supplanted with a building of stone. The new five dome stone building was three stories high with the church itself on the third floor along with the prior’s [[cell]]. The church was consecrated to the Entry of the Mother of God into the Temple, The cells for the brethren were placed on the second floor and, on the lowest floor were the kitchen, refectory, and cellars. This building could be heated. The monastery was also surrounded on three sides with stone walls. On the Kremlin side of the monastery compound, the over the gate Church of Ss Anthony and Theodosius of the Kiev Caves was built.

Fire again caused great damage to the St. John the Forerunner Monastery on [[September 3]], 1815. On that day a great fire burned in the city of Kazan that destroyed almost 1,200 buildings, including the monastery. Only some furniture and the icon of St. German were saved from the heated church. Restoration of the monastery began in 1818 by rehabilitating and using the unheated church. Its [[altar]] was enlarged and a new vestry was built. Cells for the [[monk]]s were added in the passageway between the bell tower and the church. This work led to re-consecration of the restored church on [[June 24]], 1819.