For over five hundred years old village of manega located on the banks of the river. It is situated 12 km from the village of Yarn. The village manjha from the North-East side rests on a steep hill, and limit the marshy lands of the river. Therefore, the settlement has the shape of a strip. Two-storey, with carved architraves, houses lined up along the street. This is typical of North-Karelian village. Chapel of the Nativity of the blessed virgin Mary is visible everywhere on the hill, overgrown with occasional pine and fir trees. It was built in the second half of the 18th century. Its appearance and size, suggests that it was originally built as a Church.

The low tent of the bell tower stands on the pillars and completed by a small dome, 2 dome located on the roof of the chapel. Chapel cupola obviously too big, this architectural disparity indicates that this building is built in the style of Russian churches, but later it was changed by the local population in the North-Karelian style.

Chapel in Manga have been recognized separately from the village famous in their day book by V. P. Semenov-Tyan-Shansky "Russia. Complete geographical description of our Fatherland", which was published in the early twentieth century. The image of this chapel is found in the guidebooks as the type of North Karelian structure.

Through research it is possible to establish the history of the construction of the monument. At first the chapel was built without a steeple. In the first half of the 19th century it underwent a thorough restructuring. The porch was converted into a canopy. The North porch was dismantled and carried outside the hull of the gallery with boards, then built the door into the passage at the entrance to the South porch. Apparently, at the same time the belfry was added.

The building was repaired and in the 2nd half of the 19th century. Conventional roof was replaced with a straight cropped TES. Sheathed with boards were also sency inside and outside the building. The jambs of the Windows at the top and bottom ledges of the bell tower were made in the form of a bow shape. All the building was painted, crosses covered with iron sheet. The type of icons were changed, if the icons were just inserted into the trough in hewn logs – transoms type, after reconstruction, the use of the iconostasis with the separation struts framework order type.

Structurally, the chapel has a traditional for this building type is a higher rectangular temple part, and the adjacent house with the dining room and entry, total covered gable roof with cupola. The log cabin chapel is made on the most frequently used in villages type "in the Cup". The roof over the main, the praying part is covered with red boards with rounded ends. Above the porches and the refectory roof is traditionally made of wooden architecture of the Russian North bishwadeep method using "chicken" - the roots of young trees and "flow" - special stops. The walls inside are hewn without corner rounding. The Foundation is made of natural stone.

Ridge beam of the chapel and the refectory is adorned with the crest of the thread of repeating triangles. On the edge of the triangular gable roof attached cutting boards – fascia boards. The dome of the chapel have a bulbous shape and are covered with shingles in the form of triangular scales, the window – arch-bow and decorated with carved profiled cornice.

The interior of the chapel is mostly lost. In the refectory installed benches along the walls, decorated with shaped balusters and carved border. On one wall there was a part of table, with floral pattern. Near the Windows in the chapel are preserved the choir, decorated with vertical bars of the fence.

Previously, the chapel had two ancient icons "Signs" and "Nicholas" that were passed in 1957 in Russian Museum. The size of the icons 60 x 70 cm According to the type of writing they could be written in Novgorod icon-painting Studio and probably in the sixteenth century were brought to this region.

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