Троице-Сергиева лавра
Initially, the department was in the building of the Moscow Patriarchate (Net Lane, 5). Under Metropolitan Nicholas (JArushevich) he was given space in the Novodevichy Convent (in Lopukhinsky housing and Assumption Cathedral), who before moving to the Trinity Lavra of St. Sergius in late 1948 held the Moscow Theological Academy, and during the management department of the Metropolitan Pitirim (Nechayev) for it was built three-storey building on the street Pogodinskaya (consecrated September 22, 1981).