Church of Sts. righteous Godfather Joachim and Anna on Yakimanka
B. Yakimanka St., 13 (wasteland)
"It was first mentioned in 1493. In the 16th century, it gave its name to the street where it stood. Since 1625, the main throne of the Annunciation; in 1657, a wooden one. The side-altar of St. Sergius was issued antimins. In Catherine's time, a detached bell tower was erected, a new altar was built. In 1866, the western portal was arranged. Inside, the furnishings are new: the main iconostasis in 1848, side-chambers in 1866. From antiquity, the floor of squares of white stone was preserved in the refectory ".
"The church housed a parish school and 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 decapitated. The blacksmith shop of experimental workshops was located inside. The building looked dirty, smoky, factory superstructures were attached to it" (M. L. Bogoyavlensky) ... There were attempts to achieve its restoration - the artist Pavel Korin wrote in an article in the newspaper "Komsomolskaya Pravda" in 1966 the following: "... I cannot come to terms with the fact that in the seven-house (probably a typo - the temple was a seven-HEAD. - P . P.) in the temple of Joachim and Anna of the 17th century on Bolshaya Yakimanka there is now a press-forging shop ... "
All this, however, ended with the fact that on the night of November 3 to 4, 1969, when a new passage from the street was arranged. Dimitrov on B. Polyanka the temple was blown up. As reported by the article in the typewritten magazine "Veche", the explosion was carried out according to the project of the head of the Mosproekt-13 workshop, A.B. Gurkov, with the blessing of the chief architect of Moscow M.V. must not be forgotten. - P. P.). The pretext for this most recent demolition of a 17th century church in Moscow was this: it detracts from the new passage; this turned out to be another lie, since now on the site of the church it is completely on the roadway, but an empty lawn.
"Once B. Yakimanka street directly went to B. Kamenny bridge through a small Gildyanskiy bridge, thrown over a lake lying on its way. However, from the middle of the 17th century, traffic to the Kremlin shifted 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 B. Yakimanka from M. Kamenny bridge. a direct passage from B. Polyanka to Dimitrov street was pierced (! - P. P.), along which all traffic went. "
On the empty lawn between the two driveways, where the Church of Joachim and Anna previously stood, which gave the name to the entire Yakimanskaya Street, now there is only a row of concrete "shoes" with poles, on which periodically changing slogans are suspended.
Icon of St. right. Joachim and Anna from the church of the same name is now located in the nearest functioning church of John the Warrior on Yakimanka.
On Yakimanskaya Street, Mozhaisk, between and there is a no less interesting architectural monument - Church of Joachim and Anna, or, as the locals call it, - Yakimanskaya church.
In ancient times in place temple of Joachim and Anna in Mozhaisk the monastery of the same name was located, about which we find information in the chronicles of the 16th century. And in the scribal book of 1629 you can read:
“The Yakimanskaya Monastery, and in it the Church of Saints Godfather Akim and Anna is stone and two side-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 green. Royal doors and capitals, and a canopy on gold. Yes books: the Gospel is on the throne, yes the Trephologist, yes the Consumer, yes the Father's Minea, yes the colored Treod, yes the Service Book, all written. Vestments and ruffles of old linen. Yes, there are five bells on the bell tower. The sovereign's tribute of monetary and grain salary was not ... "
Later, in the 18th century, the monastery was abolished, and the Temple of Joachim and Anna became a parish. Nevertheless, according to historians, it is full of mysteries.
Actually, now Church of Joachim and Anna in Mozhaisk these are two temples: a smaller one, built of white stone and having a fragment of a very ancient wall (apparently, it was a part of the former not preserved cathedral of the Yakimansky monastery). And the modern church, built in 1867-1871 by the remarkable architect Kazimir Vikentievich Grinevsky. Although the church was built 50 years after the Novo-Nikolsky temple, a certain similarity can be discerned - the decor of the building is also a bizarre mixture of baroque, classicism and pseudo-gothic styles.
Saints righteous Joachim and Anna. LifeSaint Joachim was the husband of Saint Anna, the father of the Mother of God. Life literature gives Joachim the following origin: “ His genealogy is as follows: the son of David Nathan gave birth to a son Levi, Levi gave birth to Melchia and Panthir, Panthir gave birth to Varpaphir, and Varpaphir gave birth to Joachim, the father of the Mother of God.". Joachim lived in Nazareth. He married Anna, the youngest daughter of the priest Matthan of the high priestly family of Aaron. According to her father, she was from the tribe of Levin, and according to her mother, from the tribe of Judah. The conception and birth of the Virgin is known from the apocryphal Proto-Gospel of James (II century). According to this apocryphal, Joachim and Anna did not have children for a long time. When the high priest denied Joachim the right to make a sacrifice to God, since he “did not create offspring for Israel,” he withdrew into the wilderness, and his wife remained at home alone. At this time, they both had a vision of an angel who announced: “ The Lord heeded your prayer, you will conceive and give birth, and they will talk about your offspring all over the world».
After this gospel, Joachim and Anna met at the Golden Gate of Jerusalem. And so Joachim approached with his flocks, and Anna, standing at the gate, saw Joachim walking, and, running up, hugged him and said: “Now I know that the Lord has blessed me: being a widow, I am no longer a widow, being barren, I now I'll conceive! " And Joachim found peace in his house that day. (Proto Gospel of Jacob (4: 7-8)). After that, Joachim came to the Jerusalem temple, saying: "If the Lord has mercy on me, then the priest's golden plate will show me." And Joachim brought his gifts, and looked intently at the plate, coming up to the altar of the Lord, and saw no sin in himself. (Proto Gospel of Jacob (5: 1-2)). Anna conceived, "her months passed, and Anna gave birth in the ninth month."... The date of conception - December 9, is set based on the fact that it is 9 months from the date of the Nativity of the Virgin (September 8).
The four canonical Gospels do not mention the name of Mother Mary. Anna appears only in the apocryphal tradition, in particular in the "Proto-Gospel of Jacob", as well as in the "Gospel of Pseudo-Matthew" and the "Golden Legend". The tradition was also influenced by the "Word for the Nativity of the Most Holy Theotokos" by Andrew of Crete (7th-8th centuries). According to Jewish custom, on the 15th day after the birth of the baby, she was given the name indicated by the angel of God - Mary. Out of gratitude to the Lord, the parents promised to give the child to the Temple. Mary was inducted into the Temple at the age of three. Joachim and Anna put their daughter on the first step, and, to everyone's amazement, three-year-old Mary, without outside help, ascended to the very top, where she was received by the high priest Zechariah.
According to the life, Joachim lived for 80 years. Saint Anna died at the age of 79, two years after him, having spent them at the church next to her daughter. Commemoration of the Dormition of the righteous Anna on August 7 (July 25, old style). Joachim and Anna were buried near the future tomb of their daughter, as well as the grave of Joseph the Betrothed, in the Garden of Gethsemane, under the Mount of Olives, not far from Jerusalem. These tombs were located on the edge of Jehoshaphat Valley, which lay between Jerusalem and the Mount of Olives.
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Veneration of the righteous saints Godfather Joachim and Anna
The Orthodox Church calls Joachim and Anna Godfathers, since they were the forefathers of Jesus Christ in the flesh.
Days of remembrance:
- Assumption of St. Anne - August 7 (July 25, old style),
- Commemoration of the Godfather Joachim and Anna - September 22 (September 9, old style),
- the conception of St. Anna of the Most Holy Theotokos - December 22 (December 9, old style).
In 710 the relics and maforia of Saint Anne were transferred from Jerusalem to Constantinople. In the records of medieval Western pilgrims, it is reported that the shoulder and palm of St. Anne were found in the Cypriot monastery of Stavrovouni.
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Kontakion and troparion to the righteous saints Joachim and Anna
Troparion, voice 1
Already in the more legitimate shade of the righteous former, the God-given child is a thoroughbred to us, Joachim and Anna. On the same day, the divine churches, your honest memory, glorify the Father, who has erected the horn of salvation for us in the house of God, is joyfully celebrating, and joyfully celebrating.
Kontakion, voice 2
Now Anna is having fun, you will be allowed to sauces of chastity. And nourishes the Most Pure Convocates everyone, glorifies the one who has given, from her earthly falsehood, one Mother, unskilled.
Saints righteous Joachim and Anna. Icons
In the icon-painting tradition, there are both separate and joint images of the holy righteous Godfather Joachim and Anna. The icons, where the saints are depicted together, are usually illustrations from their lives, showing some of the moments described in the apocrypha, for example, the meeting of the spouses after the joyful news of the conception of the Virgin was announced to them. Joachim and Anna on the icon are in the center of the composition. Around are scenes of previous and subsequent events: a meeting with an angel, the birth of Mary, her introduction into the temple, etc.
On some icons, the righteous saints Joachim and Anna are depicted full-length or waist-deep. Saint Joachim is depicted with curly black hair with large graying and with a small roundish beard, in a tunic and a robe with resurrection, and Saint Righteous Anna - thin, with an elongated face and a sharp nose with a small hump; underwear on her - a chiton, on a chiton - a split phelonion, a veil on her head. The earliest depictions of Saint Righteous Anna are fragments of 8th century frescoes in the Church of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome. A fresco from Farras (Egypt) dates back to the same century.
Temples in the name of the righteous saints Joachim and Anna
In the East, churches dedicated to the righteous saints Joachim and Anna appear from the 6th century, while in the West only in the 12th century. In the middle of the 6th century in Constantinople, a temple was built in the name of St. Anna. In the Middle Ages, in the cities of Apt (Provence) and Duren (Germany), they believed that they possessed the relics of Anna. In the West, increased veneration for Anna began in the 14th century. The first monastery in the name of Saint Righteous Anne in the West was founded in 701 in Floriac near Rouen.
In the village of Brezova, Rash District of Serbia, there is a church in the name of Saints Joachim and Anna, also known as the Royal Church, in honor of its founder, King Milutin. It was erected in 1314, in the form of a compressed cross, with an exterior in the form of an octagonal dome. Built of stone and tuff.
In Pskov, on Uspenskaya Street, there was a Yakimansky convent (XIV century) and its main temple in the name of the holy righteous Joachim and Anna (1544). The monastery was abolished in the 18th century, and the church became a parish church. During the Soviet era, the temple was closed. In 1947-1951. restoration took place here. The renewal of the church is now beginning.
Also, in the name of the holy righteous Joachim and Anna, the side-altar of the Nativity of Christ Church in Yaroslavl was consecrated. The Nativity of Christ church in stone was built in 1635-1644 on the site of the wooden church of the same name.
Saints righteous Joachim and Anna. Paintings
Many painters depicted in their canvases the saints of the righteous Joachim and Anna: Giotto di Bondone (1266-1337), Mazolino da Panicale (c. 1383 - c. 1440), Masaccio (1401-1428), Albrecht Durer ( 1471-1528), Wolf Trout (1480-1520) and others.
Saints righteous Joachim and Anna. People's memory
Holy Righteous Anna is depicted on the coat of arms of the cities of Kobrin (Belarus), St. Annen (Germany), Yakhimov (Czech Republic), Gorodets (Belarus).
The names of one of the streets of Moscow - Bolshaya Yakimanka and the village in the Shuisky district of the Ivanovo region - Yakimanna were formed from the continuous pronunciation of the names of the holy righteous Joachim and Anna.
Date of publication or update 06.05.2017
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Church of the Saints Righteous Joachim and Anna
G. Mozhaisk.Icon of the saints and righteous Joachim and Anna. Fresco on the church of Sts. and righteous Joachim and Anna in Mozhaisk.
It is not known when the Joachiman Monastery was founded; the first information about it is 1596-1598. Then there was one "Church of St. Godfather Joachim and Anna of stone and two chapels of the Resurrection of Christ, and Leonty the Bishop of Rostov the wonderworker", while at the monastery there was "a church with a meal of Three Saints Basil the Great, Gregory the Theologian, John Chrysostom, wood top", the Holy Gates , “But at the monastery there were two abbess cells with a canopy and closets, and six brotherly cells”, the monastery had a settlement of 22 courtyards; in 1629, under it, “the place of the monastery along one hundred and twenty fathoms, across seventy fathoms without a quarter fathom”; he had up to 16 wastelands near Mozhaisk and 3 in Kolotsky stan and a mill. "
List from the scribal book of 1629: “The Yakimanskaya Monastery, and in it the Church of the Holy Father of God Akim and Anna is stone and two side-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 green. Royal doors and pillars, and a canopy in gold. Yes books: the Gospel is on the throne, yes the Trephologist, yes the Consumer, yes the Father's Minea, yes the colored Treod, yes the Service Book, all written. Vestments and ruffles of old linen. Yes, there are five bells on the bell tower. There was no monetary or grain salary from the sovereign. "
Of the abbots of the Yakiman monastery, the one mentioned at the beginning of the 16th century is known. Joachim, in January 1649, Theodosia. Builders - Simeon in 1648, Job in 1655, Abraham in 1667, Barlaam in 1673-1675.
In 1675 the monastery was transferred to the jurisdiction of the Luzhetsky monastery, in 1764 it was separated and turned 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 the Godfather Joachim and Anna, about one chapter, the head is covered with wooden scales, on the head is an iron cross, about one throne.
Yes, a stone church is attached to it, which was in the name of Leonty Metropolitan of Rostov, which was previously dilapidated, which is now being repaired as a building. Above this side-chapel, at the top, there is a wooden bell tower, covered with a plank, the head with wooden scales, an iron cross (this part of the temple has survived to our time).
And in that monastery there are no other stone and wooden churches, abbot and brotherly stone and wooden cells, shops, stone and wooden buildings and stone walls.
Around that monastery, instead of a fence, it was fenced off in pillars with a log fence, and in the corners, instead of towers, struts were cut down ... And now there is no one in that monastery as an abbot, builder and monks. And now it is present: the white priest Aleksey Grigoriev, the deacon Alexander Akinfiev ... Nothing happens to the priest and the deacon, but they are content with that monastery from the parish people, but they, the priest and the deacon, have a manor under the yards and gardens - the monastic land is one tithe ... "
In the 1770s. the temple was overhauled, and since 1867, after the demolition of the adjacent ancient temple, it became an independent one. The southern white-stone wall remains from the temple, built in the 90s. XIV century, and he was northern. In the 1880s. a refectory is attached. “1774 On September 4, it was allowed in the city of Mozhaisk near the Church of the Godfather Joachim and Anna to build a new side-altar in the name of the unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian.
In 1776, the parish at the Church of Joachiman was 100 yards, and 7 acres of manor and arable land. In 1779, there were the priest Alexy Grigoriev, the deacon Alexander Iakinfov, the deacon Ivan Alekseev, the sexton Ivan Alexandrov.
In 1777, the dean of the city churches was the priest of the Akhtyrka church, Pyotr Maksimov. “The adjoining church was originally in the name of Cosmas and Damian, but when the priest Dionysius, after the invasion of the French, was transferred from Akhtyrskaya, by the enemy of the burnt church, and, observing this temple icon, he renamed the church in the name of the Akhtyrskaya Mother of God. This icon was arranged by the voivode Stupishin. "
Initially, there were 46 parish houses at the Joachiman Church.
In 1813, the Akhtyrskaya and Ilyinsky churches burned down by the French and some villages from the Peter and Paul and Ilyinsky churches were attributed to it, and since that time there were 169 houses in the parish, and in 1855 - 263 houses.
In 1855, a clergy was assigned to the Elias Church, as a result of which 124 courtyards were separated from the Joachiman Church.
The ancient temple, which had fallen into disrepair, was dismantled in 1867.The part that has survived to our time was also wanted to be dismantled by the decision of the diocesan authorities, but in 1884, at the request of the Mozhaisk tradesman Mikhail Samorodov, it was decided to renew the temple at his expense.
By 1916, the temple was renewed only on the outside, but inside it was not consecrated.
In Soviet times, it did not work; an archive was placed in it. The clerk consisted of a priest, a deacon, a sexton and a sexton. The houses of the clergy and clergymen had their own, they stood on the church ground.
In 1821 Ioann Isidorov was the priest of the Yakiman Church, in 1829 he was.
In 1821, Ioann 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 in the Mozhaisk Spiritual Board.
In 1836 he was approved by choice as a general confessor.
In 1837 he was appointed Dean of the county churches. In the family of Fr. John and his wife Mavra Mikhailovna had 10 children: Alexander, Mikhail, George, Gregory, Pelageya, Agrippina, Catherine, Anna, Alexey, Alexandra.
In 1840, the priest John Vesyoloye was still serving in the Joachiman Church. At the same time, Jacob Ivanovich Nebezranov served as a deacon at the Church of Joachiman, and Vasily Mikhailovich Ozeretskovsky as a deacon. A new three-altar church was laid in the new place (with the blessing of Filaret, Metropolitan of Moscow).
It stands next to an ancient temple. The large stone church of the Saints Joachim and Anna was built in 1871 according to the project of Kazimir Vikentievich Grinevsky (1825-1885), with a bell tower, built on in 1893 according to the project of Pavel Georgievich Yegorov, and side-altars (1916) of St. Sergius of Radonezh and the Akhtyrskaya Icon of God Mothers, later the side-altars were consecrated in the name of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker and the Akhtyrka Icon of the Mother of God. The shrine of the temple is two large ancient sculptural images of Nikola Mozhaisky "with a sword and hail" (city).
In 1869, priest Evgeny Aleksandrovich Lebedev served in the Joachiman Church. In 1877, Alexander Nikolaevich Anserov, a priest of the Elias Church in Mozhaisk, was appointed to the post of economist of the Moscow Theological Seminary.
In 1878, on October 8, the side-altar of the Akhtyrka Mother of God was consecrated by the archimandrite of the Mozhaisky Luzhetsky monastery Dionisy. On January 14, 1879, the chapel of St. Sergius of Radonezh was consecrated.
In 1882, in place of Anserov, who entered the Savvinsky Zvenigorod Monastery, the priest of the Nicholas Cathedral Viktor Kirillovich Troitsky was appointed. The headman is the Mozhaisk merchant Gabriel Yegorovich Malakhov. In the annals compiled by priest Yevgeny Lebedev, a mistake was made: at the church there was not the Sretensky women's monastery, but the Joachimansky monastery. Under the priest Troitsky, after a 22-year hiatus, the construction of the stone bell tower was continued (1871). She was watched by a class artist, architect Pavel Georgievich Egorov. Completion of the building cost 6,000 rubles: 3.5 thousand rubles. church money, 2.5 thousand rubles. - donations. The completion was carried out in one summer.
In 1876 and 1884. In the family of the priest of the Joachiman Church, Victor Troitsky, sons Sergei and Nikolai were born, they graduated, respectively, from the Donskoye (in 1893) and Zvenigorodskoye (in 1898) Theological schools and in 1902 and 1904. Bethany Seminary.
In 1876, 1878 and 1880. In the family of the deacon of the Joachiman Church, Peter Pavlovich Lebedev, sons Sergei, Nikolai and Ivan were born. They graduated from the Zvenigorod Theological School (in 1880, 1890 and 1892) and the Bethany Seminary (in 1895, 1896 and 1898).
In the parish there were parish and city women's parish schools, established in 1893 and 1862, respectively.
In 1916, the Mozhaisk merchant of the 3rd guild Gabriel Yegorovich Malakhov (75 years old), who had been in office since 1886, was the church headman.
The state clerk consisted of a priest, a deacon and two psalmists.
In 1914, the priest Sergiy Viktorovich Troitsky (40 years old) was assigned to the temple. In 1902, he graduated from the Bethany Seminary with a 2nd grade certificate and was appointed a teacher at the Kukarino parish school.
In 1905 he was appointed to the place of his father, Archpriest Viktor Kirillovich Troitsky, a priest to Ilinskaya village Ilyinsky at the Bodna Church.
In 1912 he was awarded a legguard, in 1916 a skufio. Fr. Sergius and his wife Maria Fedorovna had three children: Tatiana, Victor, Zinaida. In 1918, Father Sergius was summoned to the assembly point for public works and never returned home. The relatives were so scared that they did not even dare to find out what happened to him.
In 1916, Pyotr Pavlovich Lebedev (71) was a deacon at the Church of Joachiman, and the psalmists were Sergei Vasilievich Troitsky and Ivan Ivanovich Tsvetkov.
From 1931 to 1932, the Hieromartyr Aref (Nasonov) served in the Church of the Righteous Saints Joachim and Anna. He was born on October 24, 1888 in the village. Dolzhik of the Zhytomyr district of the Volyn province in the family of peasants Joachim and Anna Nasonov. After graduating from the ministerial school and passing the exams necessary to take the position of a rural teacher, Arefa Akimovich, from 1913, began to teach in the village. Dolzhik. 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 to a church in the same village, while he 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 of the Rivne district of the Volyn province and in the same year was evacuated to the village. Andreevka of the Chembarsky district of the Penza province. He served there until 1931.
In 1931 he was arrested by the OGPU. After keeping the priest in prison for two weeks, the authorities released him without bringing any charges or questioning him. After the revolution, Fr. Arefa was deprived of voting rights, and his family was listed as disenfranchised.
Since 1929, the priest was subject to an individual tax, in 1930 a cow was taken from the family for non-payment of state obligations.
In 1931, Fr. Arefa moved to Mozhaisk, where until 1932 he served in the Church of Saints Joachim and Anna. He lived with his wife and seven children in the gatehouse at the church. The authorities attempted to close the church by taking the keys from the believers. But the attempt failed.
This temple is one of the few that was not closed during the Soviet era.
September 3, 1932 about. Arefa was arrested and placed on September 4 in the Butyrka isolation ward, where he was kept throughout the investigation. He was accused that, as a priest, he "lived in a 3-kilometer zone of the military warehouse ... he systematically cultivated citizens who attended church in an anti-Soviet spirit." During the investigation, the priest confirmed that he belongs to the "Tikhonovites" movement.
All the accusations against him about. Arefa rejected, saying that he did not plead guilty. Testimony against him, apart from other false witnesses, was given by the priest Theodore Kazansky. When 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 the 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 hierarchy to come to the parish.
In 1936 he was appointed to serve in the temple of the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian in the village. Gobies of the Saraevsky district of the Ryazan region.
On December 31, 1937, the NKVD troika sentenced Fr. Aref to be shot. The priest was shot on January 10, 1938 and buried in an unknown mass grave.
In March 1933, the Moscow Oblast Executive Committee decided to close the Akim and Anna church in Mozhaisk. The decree says that the building of the Joachiman Church must be used for the auditorium of the ShKM (collective farm youth school) and the 1st stage school. 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 Joachiman Church, was born in Saratov, had a lower spiritual education. In Mozhaisk he lived on the street. Krupskaya, d. 15. Arrested on December 5, 1937, sentenced on December 9 and shot on December 15. Priest Kirill Chmel was born in the Kharkov province, had a middle spiritual education, lived in Mozhaisk, st. Kozhevennaya, 30. Arrested on November 14, 1937, sentenced on November 25 and shot on December 2.
The Joachiman temple was not ravaged, it was the only functioning temple in the entire city.
In 1941, when the Red Army retreated, they wanted to blow it up, but the believers did not give it.
During the German occupation, Archpriest Alexander Voskresensky and Deacon Georgy Khokhlov served in the Joachiman Church, from whom the German soldier wanted to take off his fur coat in the courtyard of the pharmacy, but the deacon entered the fight, and the fur coat remained on his shoulders, but another German soldier took off his warm mittens ... In the Joachiman temple, the nun Matryosha was the watchman. A group of drunken German soldiers was rushing to her, then the church head Ilya Vasilyevich Tsvelev happened to be. He began to counsel them. The Germans beat him severely. During the shelling in the basement under the Joachiman Church, up to 1000 people were hiding.
In the mid-1950s. Priest Mikhail Nesterov (1919-1996) served in the Church of the Saints of the Righteous Joachim and Anna.
In 1946 he was ordained a deacon. He served in Mariupol, Orekhovo-Zuevsky region (Drezna, Kabanovo), was ordained a priest and was appointed rector of the cathedral in Mozhaisk. Nobody went to the temple, it was empty, with broken glass, there was no choir. Father Mikhail gradually adjusted everything, served for 5 years and left the state 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 that he was subjected to at school, and became a psalmist.
In May 1941 he was drafted into the army and sent to the North, fought on the Rybachy Peninsula throughout the war. He returned with sore legs. He entered the Theological Institute at the Novodevichy Convent in Moscow. Ill with a stomach ulcer. After serving in Mozhaisk and leaving the state, he went to Bolshevo, where his aunt Maria served as a psalmist. He again began to serve in a church in the vicinity of Pushkino, again left the state, but at the end of the same year he was assigned to the Antioch courtyard in Moscow, where he served from 1959 to 1977. He was loved there and was nicknamed "fluffy" for his magnificent hair. Father Mikhail was awarded Soviet military orders and medals and orders of the Church of Antioch. Due to illness, he retired, served on holidays in the Bolshevik Church of the Holy Unmercenaries Cosmas and Damian. He was ill a lot, his leg was taken away, and he was brought to church in a wheelchair, and for the last six months he had not got out of bed.
From 1953 to 1958, Protodeacon Sergiy Ivanovich Dobrov served in St. Nicholas Cathedral (he died in 1971 at the age of 64).
Until 1953 he served at the Trinity Cathedral in Kalinin, in 1950 he was elevated to the rank of protodeacon.
Since 1958, he served at the Nikolsk Church of the Same Faith in Moscow.
In 1956-1957. served in the church in the name of the Saints Righteous Joachim and Anna in the city of Mozhaisk, Mitred Archpriest (since 1965) Ioann Nikolaevich Sokolov (d. 1969). He was born in 1887 in the city of Vladimir.
In 1903, he graduated from the ministerial 4-grade school there, and the next year - a one-year course for psalmists at the Vladimir bishop's house. Bishop Damian of Pereslavl in 1926 ordained a presbyter to the church in the village. Daratnikovo, Vladimir diocese.
The rite of consecration of the foundation of the church in 1999 and the rite of consecration in 2001 were performed by Archbishop Gregory of Mozhaisk.
Church of Saints Joachim and Anna in Mozhaisk
In the old part of Mozhaisk, not far from the Mozhaisk Kremlin, there is a unique complex of temples. The majestic, large stone church of Mozhaisk, built in 1871 according to the project of Kazimir Vikentievich Grinevsky, with a bell tower, built on in 1893 according to the project of Pavel Georgievich Egorov, in the name of the saints and righteous Godfather Joachim and Anna, with side-chapels of St. Sergius of Radonezh and the Akhtyrka Icon of the Mother of God ; and a small temple in the name of the Martyr Leonty of Rostov, the southern wall of which, facing the temple of the 19th century, is made of blocks of white stone and gives out the deep antiquity of the building.
The temple complex is located on the site of the ancient Joachimoansky monastery, which was abolished in 1764. It is not known when the Joachimoansky monastery was founded (the first information about it dates back to 1596-1598). Then there was one stone church of Saints Godfather Joachim and Anna with two side-altars - the Resurrection of Christ and Leonty, the Bishop of Rostov the wonderworker.
The terrible era of persecution of the Church of Christ of the Soviet period did not pass by the temples of Mozhaisk. An archive is located in the small church of Leonty Rostovsky, but the large church of Joachim and Anna, one of the few in the Russian land, did not stop serving God and people either during the Great Patriotic War or in Soviet times. But the hard times also affected the church of Joachim and Anna: the priests of the temple Kirill Kharitonovich Chmel and Nikolai Alexandrovich Safonov in 1937 were shot at the Butovo training ground, and in 1938 the priest of the temple Arefa Akimovich Nasonov was shot.
Currently, the temple of Joachim and Anna, as before, occupies a worthy place in Mozhaisk, filling its life with transcendental content, again and again becoming a true decoration of the city. The shrine of the temple is two large ancient sculptural images of Nikola Mozhaisky "with a sword and a hail".
The holy spring of Sergius of Radonezh is located at the temple.
Pilgrims from different parts of Russia aspire to these holy places. The special atmosphere that prevails here attracts not only Orthodox Russians, but also believers from neighboring countries.
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