Ivanovsky monastery, or John the Baptist nunnery located in the center of Moscow. It is believed that it is founded in the 15th century, in the area of ​​modern Soljanki, the site of the blighted grand manor with Vladimir Church. To the south of the church and the convent was founded.

Funds for the maintenance of the monastery donated noble patrons. The monastery also received funds from the state treasury. In 1700, in the monastery there were 37 households farmers, in 1744 there were 713 farmers. Since 1654 the walls of the monastery were made of Ivanovo "wool fair." The monastery offered for sale woolen yarn, various products made of wool, silver and gold embroidery. In 1700, the descendants of Prince Pozharsky gave Ivanovsky monastery village Safonovo and Yurievskoye village in the Moscow district.

The monastery burned in 1688 and 1737 respectively, and in 1748 ceased to exist after a strong fire. In 1761 by decree of Empress Elizabeth, work began on the restoration of the monastery.

For many years it Ivanovsky monastery was a prison objectionable women of the royal house. The monastery was imprisoned queen Maria Petrovna - the wife of Basil Shuisky and Pelagia - the second wife of Prince John, the eldest son of Ivan the Terrible. Ivanovsky monastery was used as a prison. It contained oxbow lake Thais party to a conspiracy against Vladimir Golitsyn V. Shumsky 1610. From 1768 to 1801 in the monastery contained Saltychikha - DM Saltykov - for the murder of 139 of his serfs.

After the great fire of 1812 the monastery ceased to exist. In 1859 the monastery was revived. It opened a school for orphans. Organized a hospital for nuns, nursery for children, foundlings, and icon painting school for the sisters of the monastery.

In 1861-1878 by the architect M. Bykovsky rebuilt Ivanovsky monastery. Funds donated to this merchant's wife Makarova-Zubachov.

Ivanovsky monastery ensemble in style in tune with the architecture of the Italian Renaissance heyday. In the center of the territory erected monumental cathedral with a huge dome faceted shape. Cathedral of Beheading of St. John the Baptist in the building dominates the area surrounding the monastery. From the front, looking to the west, two built bell tower. Between them there are Holy Gates. On the eastern side of the cathedral is the church of the hospital enclosure with Elizabeth with him. In the northwest part of the monastery located privately case and a refectory.

In 1918 the monastery was closed. In 1941, in the premises of the monastery was opened correspondence school of the USSR Ministry of Internal Affairs. In the 1980s, in the cathedral of the monastery was the Central State Archive of the Moscow region, located in the housing privately organization "Mosenergo" in the house of the clergy was a garment factory and residential apartments. A New History of the Ivanovo monastery began in 1992.

Nowadays, Ivanovsky monastery valid. It was restored main cathedral of the monastery - the Beheading of John the Baptist. Several buildings of the monastery was transferred to the Brotherhood of the Holy Prince Vladimir. The Elizabeth Church, built in 1879 and restored in 1995, resumed service. The hospital building opened a hospice. The house is open gymnasium clergy.

Scenic view of Ivanovsky monastery like filmmakers. He appears several times in frames famous movie "Pokrovsky Gates".