Temple of Godfather Joachim and Anna. Holy Fathers Joachim and Anna. Temples in the name of the holy righteous Joachim and Anna

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Lesson 2. Presentation of the Most Holy Theotokos into the temple (Lessons from the celebrated event: a) we should visit the temple of God more often; b) must firmly keep these vows, and c) parents must take their children to the temple from their early years) I. Parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Righteous Joachim

Lesson 3. Introduction to the Temple of the Blessed Virgin Mary (What is needed for going to the temple of God to be beneficial?) I. The righteous parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Joachim and Anna, vowed to dedicate their child to God for service in the temple, if God grants him to them. The Lord gave them

Church of St. righteous Godfather Joachim and Anna on Yakimanka

B. Yakimanka st., 13 (wasteland)

"First mentioned in 1493. In the 16th century it gave its name to the street where it stood. Since 1625, the main altar of the Annunciation; in 1657 it was shown as a wooden one. The stone one was built in 1684. The warm refectory was 1701; November 29 in its the chapel of St. Sergius was given an antimension. In Catherine's time, a separate bell tower was built, a new altar was built. In 1866, a western portal was built. Inside, the furnishings are new: the main iconostasis is from 1848, the chapels are from 1866. From antiquity, the refectory has a floor made of squares of white stone. ".

“At the church there was a parish school and a parish guardianship in memory of the deliverance of their imperial majesties from danger during the crash of the royal train on October 17, 1888 near the station of Borki.”

The temple was closed after 1917. “By 1965, the bell tower was broken down to the 1st tier, the temple was beheaded. Inside there was a blacksmith shop for experimental workshops. The appearance of the building was dirty, grimy, factory superstructures were stuck to it” (M. L. Bogoyavlensky) . There were attempts to achieve its restoration - the artist Pavel Korin wrote the following in an article in the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper in 1966: “... I cannot come to terms with the fact that in the seven-tent (probably a typo - the temple was seven-headed. - P . P.) the temple of Joachim and Anna of the 17th century on Bolshaya Yakimanka is now a forge and press shop..."

All this, however, ended with the fact that on the night of November 3-4, 1969, when constructing a new passage from the street. Dimitrov on Bolshaya Polyanka the temple was blown up. As an article in the typewritten magazine "Veche" reported, the explosion was carried out according to the design of the head of the Mosproekt-13 workshop A. B. Gurkov with the blessing of the chief architect of Moscow M. V. Posokhin (the article was called "The Fate of the Russian Capital"; it seems to us that the names of the destroyers must not be forgotten - P.P.). The pretext for this latest demolition of a 17th-century church in Moscow was this: it allegedly interferes with a new passage; this turned out to be another lie, since now the site of the church is completely a roadway and an empty lawn.

“Once upon a time, B. Yakimanka Street directly went to the B. Kamenny Bridge through a small Gildyansky Bridge, thrown over a lake lying on its way. However, from the middle of the 17th century, traffic to the Kremlin moved to the neighboring Kosmodamiansky Bridge (later M. Kamenny), from which the current Polyanka began, and the old highway was built up. Therefore, those traveling from the center had to make a small detour along the Yakimanskaya embankment to enter Bolshaya Yakimanka from the M. Kamenny Bridge. This inconvenience persisted until 1969, when, in order to solve the transport problem through the old quarters a direct passage was made (! - P.P.) from Bolshaya Polyanka to Dimitrova Street, along which all the traffic went.”

On the empty lawn between two passages, where the Church of Joachim and Anna previously stood, which gave its name to the entire Yakimanskaya Street, now there is only a row of concrete “shoes” with poles on which periodically changing slogans are hung.

Icon of St. right Joachim and Anna from the church of the same name is now located in the nearest functioning Church of St. John the Warrior on Yakimanka.

Date of publication or update 05/06/2017

Temples of the Moscow region

Church of the Holy Righteous Joachim and Anna

It is unknown when the Joachiman Monastery was founded; the first information about it is 1596-1598. Then there was one “church of the Holy Father Joachim and Anna made of stone and two chapels of the Resurrection of Christ, and Leontius Bishop of Rostov the Wonderworker”, on the monastery there was “a church with a meal of the Three Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom, wooden top”, Holy Gate , “yes, the monastery has two abbot’s cells with a canopy and closets, and six brethren’s cells,” at the monastery there was a settlement of 22 courtyards; in 1629, under it “the monastery site along one hundred and twenty fathoms, across seventy fathoms and even seventy fathoms”; he had up to 16 wastelands near Mozhaisk and 3 in Kolotsk camp and a mill.”

List from the scribe book of 1629: “The Yakimanskaya Monastery, and in it the Church of the Holy Fathers Akim and Anna is made of stone and there are two chapels: the Resurrection of Christ and Leonty, Bishop of Rostov the Wonderworker. And in the church there are images of God’s mercy: the image of the local Akim and Anna on the greenery. The royal doors and pillars and canopy are made of gold. Yes books: on the throne is the Gospel, yes the Complete Treod, yes the Trefolog, yes the Consumer, yes the Menaion of the Father, yes the Colored Treod, yes the Missal, all written. Robes and surplices of old linen. Yes, there are five bells on the bell tower. There was no sovereign tribute in money or bread.”

Of the abbots of the Yakiman monastery, the one mentioned at the beginning of the 16th century is known. Joachim, in January 1649, Feodosia. Builders - Simeon in 1648, Job in 1655, Abraham in 1667, Varlaam in 1673-1675.

In 1675, the monastery was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Luzhetsky Monastery, in 1764 it was separated and converted into a parish church, which still exists today. According to the inventory of 1763: “In that monastery there is one stone church of an ancient building in the name of Godfather Joachim and Anna, about one chapter, the head is covered with wooden scales, on the head there is an iron cross, about one throne.

Yes, attached to it is a stone church, which was in the name of Leonty, Metropolitan of Rostov, which was previously dilapidated, which is now a building under repair. Above this chapel at the top there is a wooden bell tower, covered with planks, the head is made of wooden scales, and an iron cross (this part of the temple has survived to this day).

And in that monastery there are no other stone and wooden churches, abbots’ and fraternal stone and wooden cells, shops, stone and wooden buildings and a stone fence.

Around that monastery, instead of a fence, there is a log fence in the pillars, and in the corners there are chimneys cut down instead of towers... And now there is no one in that monastery as an abbot, builder or monastics. And now it is obvious: the white priest Alexey Grigoriev, the sexton Alexander Akinfiev... Nothing happens to the priest and sexton in cash and grain salaries, but they are content with that monastery from the parish people, but they have a priest and a sexton, under the courtyards and gardens of the estate -one tithe of monastery land..."

In the 1770s. the temple was completely rebuilt, and in 1867, after the demolition of the ancient temple adjacent to it, it became independent. The southern white stone wall remains from the temple built in the 90s. XIV century, and he had a northern one. In the 1880s a refectory has been added. “On September 4, 1774, in the city of Mozhaisk, at the Church of the Godfather of Joachim and Anna, it was allowed to build a chapel again in the name of the unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian.

In 1776, there were 100 parish yards at the Joakiman Church, 7 dessiatines of estate and arable land. In 1779, there were priest Alexy Grigoriev, deacon Alexander Iakinfov, sexton Ivan Alekseev, sexton Ivan Alexandrov.

In 1777, the dean of the city churches was the priest of the Akhtyra Church, Pyotr Maksimov. “The chapel church was originally in the name of Cosmas and Damian, but when the priest Dionysius, after the invasion of the French, was transferred from the Akhtyrskaya church by the enemy to the burned church and, observing the temple icon, he renamed the church in the name of the Akhtyrskaya Mother of God. This icon was created by Voivode Stupishin.”

Initially, there were 46 parish houses attached to the Joachiman Church.

In 1813, the Akhtyrskaya and Ilyinskaya churches, burned by the French, and some villages from the Peter and Paul and Ilyinskaya churches were assigned to it, and from that time there were 169 houses in the parish, and in 1855 - 263 houses.

In 1855, a clergyman was assigned to the Elias Church, as a result of which 124 courtyards were separated from the Joakiman Church.

The ancient temple, which had fallen into disrepair, was dismantled in 1867. The part that had survived to this day was also to be dismantled by decision of the diocesan authorities, but in 1884, at the request of the Mozhai tradesman Mikhail Samorodov, it was decided to renew the temple at his expense.

By 1916, the temple was restored only from the outside, but the inside was not consecrated.

During Soviet times, it was not operational; an archive was placed in it. The clergy consisted of a priest, deacon, sexton and sexton. The clergy and clergy had their own houses and stood on church land.

In 1821, the priest of the Yakiman Church was John Isidorov, in 1829 he was the same.

In 1821, John Isidorovich Vesyoloye was ordained a priest at the Joachiman Church. He was the son of a priest. Graduated from the Moscow Seminary with a 1st category certificate.

In 1833 he was appointed to be present on the Mozhaisk Spiritual Board.

In 1836 he was confirmed by choice as a general confessor.

In 1837 he was appointed dean of the district churches. In the family of Fr. John and his wife Mavra Mikhailovna had 10 children: Alexander, Mikhail, George, Gregory, Pelageya, Agrippina, Ekaterina, Anna, Alexey, Alexandra.

In 1840, priest John Vesyoloye was still serving in the Joachiman Church. At the same time, Jacob Ivanovich Nebezranov served as a deacon at the Joachiman Church, and Vasily Mikhailovich Ozeretskovsky served as a sexton. A new three-altar church was founded in a new location (with the blessing of Philaret, Metropolitan of Moscow).

It stands next to an ancient temple. The large stone church of the Holy Righteous Joachim and Anna was built in 1871 according to the design of Kazimir Vikentyevich Grinevsky (1825-1885), with a bell tower built in 1893 according to the design of Pavel Georgievich Egorov, and chapels (1916) of St. Sergius of Radonezh and the Akhtyrka Icon of God Mother, later the chapels were consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Akhtyrka Icon of the Mother of God. The shrine of the temple are two large ancient sculptural images of St. Nicholas of Mozhaisk “with a sword and hail” (city).

In 1869, priest Evgeniy Aleksandrovich Lebedev served in the Joachiman Church. In 1877, Alexander Nikolaevich Anserov, priest of the Elias Church in Mozhaisk, was appointed instead of him, who had accepted the position of economist at the Moscow Theological Seminary.

In 1878, on October 8, the chapel of the Akhtyrskaya Mother of God was consecrated by Archimandrite Dionysius of the Mozhaisk Luzhetsky Monastery. On January 14, 1879, the chapel of St. Sergius of Radonezh was consecrated.

In 1882, the priest of the St. Nicholas Cathedral, Viktor Kirillovich Troitsky, replaced Anserov, who entered the Savvinsky Zvenigorod Monastery. The headman is the Mozhai merchant Gavriil Egorovich Malakhov. In the chronicle compiled by priest Evgeny Lebedev, a mistake was made: at the church there was not the Sretensky women's monastery, but the Joakimansky men's monastery. Under the priest Trinity, after a 22-year break, the construction of the stone bell tower was continued (1871). She was watched by a great artist, architect Pavel Georgievich Egorov. Completion cost 6,000 rubles: 3.5 thousand rubles. church money, 2.5 thousand rubles. - donations. The construction was completed in one summer.

In 1876 and 1884 sons Sergei and Nikolai were born into the family of the priest of the Joachiman Church, Victor Trinity; they graduated, respectively, from the Don (in 1893) and Zvenigorod (in 1898) Theological schools and in 1902 and 1904. Bethany Seminary.

In 1876, 1878 and 1880 sons Sergei, Nikolai and Ivan were born into the family of deacon of the Joachiman Church Peter Pavlovich Lebedev. They graduated from the Zvenigorod Theological School (in 1880, 1890 and 1892) and the Bethany Seminary (in 1895, 1896 and 1898).

The parish had a parochial and a city girls' parochial school, established in 1893 and 1862, respectively.

In 1916, the church warden was the Mozhaisk merchant of the 3rd guild, Gavriil Egorovich Malakhov (75 years old), who had been in office since 1886.

The staff of the clergy consisted of a priest, a deacon and two psalm-readers.

In 1914, priest Sergiy Viktorovich Troitsky (40 years old) was assigned to the temple. In 1902, he graduated from the Bethany Seminary with a 2nd category certificate and was appointed as a teacher at the Kukarinsky parochial school.

In 1905, he was appointed to the place of his father, Archpriest Viktor Kirillovich Troitsky, as a priest in the village of Ilyinskaya. Ilyinsky on Bodnya Church.

In 1912 he was awarded a legguard, in 1916 a skufya. U o. Sergius and his wife Maria Feodorovna had three children: Tatyana, Victor, Zinaida. In 1918, Father Sergius was summoned to a collection point for public works and never returned home. The relatives were so frightened that they did not even dare to find out what happened to him.

In 1916, the deacon at the Joakiman Church was Pyotr Pavlovich Lebedev (71 years old), and the psalm-readers were Sergei Vasilyevich Troitsky and Ivan Ivanovich Tsvetkov.

From 1931 to 1932, Hieromartyr Arefa (Nasonov) served in the Church of the Holy Righteous Joachim and Anna. He was born on October 24, 1888 in the village. Debtor of the Zhitomir district of the Volyn province in the family of peasants Joakim and Anna Nasonov. After graduating from the ministerial school and passing the exams necessary to take the position of a rural teacher, Arefa Akimovich began teaching in the village in 1913. Debtor. He married Agrippina Grigorievna Polyakova, who graduated from high school and worked as a teacher.

On August 1, 1914, Arefa Nasonov was ordained a priest at a church in the same village, but did not give up his teaching. The young priest distinguished himself by converting many schismatics to Orthodoxy, for which he was especially respected by Archbishop Anthony (Khrapovitsky), who ruled the Volyn diocese.

In 1916 Fr. Arefa moved to the village. Golyshevo, Rivne district, Volyn province, and in the same year was evacuated to the village. Andreevka, Chembarsky district, Penza province. There he served until 1931.

In 1931 he was arrested by the OGPU. After keeping the priest in custody for two weeks, the authorities released him without bringing any charges or interrogating him. After the revolution Fr. Arefa was deprived of voting rights, and his family was considered disenfranchised.

Since 1929, the priest was subject to an individual tax; in 1930, for non-payment of state obligations, the family’s cow was taken away.

In 1931 Fr. Arefa moved to Mozhaisk, where until 1932 he served in the Church of Saints Joachim and Anna. He, along with his wife and seven children, lived in a gatehouse at the church. The authorities attempted to close the temple by taking away the keys from the believers. But the attempt failed.

This temple is one of the few that was not closed during Soviet times.

September 3, 1932 Fr. Arefa was arrested and placed in the Butyrsky detention center on September 4, where he was kept throughout the investigation. He was accused of being a priest, “living in a 3-kilometer zone of a military warehouse... systematically treating citizens who attended church in an anti-Soviet spirit.” During the investigation, the priest confirmed that he belongs “to the Tikhonov movement.”

All the accusations brought against him about. Arefa denied it, saying that he did not plead guilty. Testimony against him, in addition to other false witnesses, was given by the priest Theodore of Kazan. Being questioned as a witness, he said that Fr. Arefa is a monarchist, condemns collective farm construction and cannot come to terms with the existence of Soviet power, expects its speedy death, and in general, “Nasonov is a dangerous element in the conditions of Mozhaisk reality.”

On September 11, 1932, the OGPU troika sentenced priest Arefa Nasonov to three years of exile in Kazakhstan. After 8 months, he escaped from exile and went to the Penza region, where he once lived for about 15 years. He hid there until 1936, but apparently he could no longer remain without service and asked the clergy to come to the parish.

In 1936, he was appointed to serve in the Church of the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian in the village. Bychki Saraevsky district of the Ryazan region.

On December 31, 1937, the NKVD “troika” sentenced Fr. Arrested for execution. The priest was shot on January 10, 1938 and buried in an unknown mass grave.

In March 1933, the Moscow Regional Executive Committee decided to close the Akim and Anna Church in Mozhaisk. The resolution states that the building of the Joachiman Church must be used as an auditorium for the ShKM (collective farm youth school) and 1st level schools. Believers can use the Church of the Ascension. But the Lord saved the temple.

In 1937, at the Butovo training ground near Moscow, the priests of the church of Fr. Kirill Kharitonovich Chmel (b. 1879) and Fr. Nikolai Alexandrovich Safonov (b. 1900). Nikolai Safonov, rector of the Joakiman Church, was born in Saratov, had a lower spiritual education. In Mozhaisk he lived on the street. Krupskaya, 15. Arrested on December 5, 1937, sentenced on December 9 and executed on December 15. Priest Kirill Chmel was born in the Kharkov province, had a secondary spiritual education, lived in Mozhaisk, st. Kozhevennaya, 30. Arrested on November 14, 1937, sentenced on November 25 and executed on December 2.

The Joakiman temple was not destroyed; it was the only functioning temple in the entire city.

In 1941, during the retreat of the Red Army, they wanted to blow it up, but the believers did not allow it.

During the German occupation, Archpriest Alexander Voskresensky and Deacon Georgy Khokhlov served in the Joachiman Church, from whom a German soldier wanted to take off his fur coat in the courtyard of the pharmacy, but the deacon entered into a fight, and the fur coat remained on his shoulders, but another German soldier took off his warm mittens . In the Joachiman Church the nun Matryosha was the watchman. A group of drunken German soldiers was breaking into her, and then church elder Ilya Vasilyevich Tsvelev happened to be there. He began to admonish them. The Germans beat him severely. During the shelling, up to 1,000 people took refuge in the basement under the Joachiman Church.

In the mid-1950s. Priest Mikhail Nesterov (1919-1996) served in the Church of the Holy Righteous Joachim and Anna.

In 1946 he was ordained a deacon. He served in Mariupol, Orekhovo-Zuevsky district (Drezna, Kabanovo), was ordained a priest and appointed rector of the cathedral in Mozhaisk. Nobody went to the temple; it stood empty, with broken glass, and there was no choir. Father Mikhail slowly adjusted everything, served for 5 years and left the staff after two heart attacks.

Father Mikhail was born into a peasant family, he had 6 brothers and sisters. From childhood he was at the temple, despite the ridicule and humiliation to which he was subjected at school, and became a psalm-reader.

In May 1941 he was drafted into the army and sent to the North; he fought on the Rybachy Peninsula throughout the war. Came back with sore legs. He entered the Theological Institute at the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow. Got sick with a stomach ulcer. After serving in Mozhaisk and leaving the state, he went to Bolshevo, where his Aunt Maria served as a psalm-reader. He again began to serve in a church in the vicinity of Pushkino, again left the staff, but at the end of the same year he was appointed to the Antioch courtyard in Moscow, where he served from 1959 to 1977. They loved him there and nicknamed him “fluffy” for his lush hair. Father Mikhail was awarded Soviet military orders and medals and orders of the Church of Antioch. Due to illness, he retired and served on holidays in the Bolshevo Church of the Unmercenary Saints Cosmas and Damian. He was sick a lot, his leg was taken away, and he was brought to the temple in a wheelchair, and for the last six months he did not get out of bed.

From 1953 to 1958, Protodeacon Sergius Ivanovich Dobrov served in St. Nicholas Cathedral (died in 1971 at the age of 64).

Until 1953, he served at the Trinity Cathedral in Kalinin, and in 1950 he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon.

Since 1958 he served in the St. Nicholas Church of Edinoverie in Moscow.

In 1956-1957 served in the church in the name of the Holy Righteous Joachim and Anna in the city of Mozhaisk, mitred archpriest (since 1965) Ioann Nikolaevich Sokolov (d. 1969). He was born in 1887 in Vladimir.

In 1903 he graduated from a 4-year ministerial school there, and the following year he completed a one-year course for psalm-readers at the Vladimir bishop's house. Bishop Damian of Pereslavl in 1926 ordained him a presbyter for the church in the village. Daratnikovo, Vladimir diocese.

The rite of consecration of the foundation of the temple in 1999 and the rite of consecration in 2001 were performed by Archbishop Gregory of Mozhaisk.