Saints Joachim and Anne Monastery, Mozhaysk, Orthodox monastery in Mozhaysk, Russia

Saints Joachim and Anne Monastery is an Orthodox religious complex near the center of Mozhaysk featuring multiple domed churches and traditional Eastern Orthodox architectural forms. The grounds contain various buildings arranged around courtyards typical of Russian monastic layouts from the 19th century.

The monastery is first documented in a 1504 boundary charter describing its lands as old boundaries. It was one of ten monasteries forming a ring that defended the Mozhaysk Kremlin, and one of 17 in 16th-century Mozhaysk. It burned in 1675, was attached to the Luzhetsky Monastery in 1676, and was abolished by Catherine II in 1764. Its stone cathedral was demolished in 1867, and in 1871 a large stone church of Joachim and Anne, designed by Kazimir Grinevsky, was built; its bell tower was added in 1893 to a design by Pavel Yegorov.

The monastery was abolished in 1764 by decree of Catherine II, and its cathedral was demolished in 1867; the north wall of that old cathedral became the south wall of the Akhtyrka church, one of the oldest structures in Moscow Oblast. The 1871 church of Joachim and Anne, with its bell tower raised in 1893, stayed open throughout the Soviet period.

The monastery no longer exists as a community: it was dissolved in 1764, and the surviving churches stand in the centre of Mozhaysk. The 1871 church of Joachim and Anne, with its bell tower added in 1893, never closed in the Soviet period. Look for the north wall of the former cathedral, reused as the south wall of the Akhtyrka church and counted among the oldest structures in Moscow Oblast.

The monastery was dissolved in 1764 by decree of Catherine II, and its 1390s stone cathedral was demolished in 1867. The north wall of that old cathedral was kept as the south wall of the Akhtyrka church, making it one of the oldest structures in Moscow Oblast.