Monastery of the Savior Not Made with Hands, Orthodox monastery in Yakutsk, Russia

The Monastery of the Savior Not Made with Hands is a men's monastery of the Yakut and Lena diocese in Yakutsk, founded in 1640 and now being rebuilt. By the early 20th century its grounds held three churches, a bell tower and stone monks' cells; most wooden buildings burned, the stone Ascension Cathedral and the cell block were dismantled, and only the former bishop's chambers survive, now the main building of the Yakutsk State Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North. A church built in 1866 was consecrated to the Image of the Savior Not Made by Hands.

Founded in 1640 at the Yakutsk ostrog by hegumen Nafanail, who came from Vologda, with donations from Tsar Mikhail Fyodorovich, it was the first monastery in north-eastern Russia. A Spasskaya church was built in 1663-1665 with a gift from Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Closed by the Yakut revkom in March 1919, it was nationalised and its buildings given to the local museum; only the former bishop's chambers survived. Reopened in 2012, it is being rebuilt.

The monastery's name comes from the Church of the Image of the Savior Not Made with Hands, consecrated in 1866. Its monks ran a school for local children from 1735 and a Yakut spiritual school from 1800, later a missionary school and seminary (1884). Since 2011 a converted railway-carriage church has served the community while the monastery is rebuilt.

The monastery is being rebuilt on its historic site; in August 2011 a new Savior church was founded here, and on 19 April 2012 its first pile was driven and consecrated. Until construction is finished, a cramped church-wagon serves the gathered believers, so access follows the building works. The former bishop's quarters, now the main building of the Yakut State Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North, stand nearby.

The monastery's only asset found by a Soviet commission around 1921 was "30 barrels of Portland cement". Its stone Cathedral of the Ascension and the monks' cell block were later dismantled, and from 1923 to 1974 one surviving building housed the Central State Archive of the Yakut ASSR before being demolished. Only the former bishop's quarters remain, now the main building of the Yakutsk State Museum of History and Culture of the Peoples of the North.