Spassky Cathedral of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky monastery was built here in the fulfillment of the promise given by Ivan the Terrible in front of the campaign against Kazan in 1552. Praying in the monasteries of Murom and worshipping Murom shrines, he made a vow in the event of a win to build in Murom stone temples. Ivan the terrible has fulfilled this promise and one erected by his orders, churches became the Cathedral of the Transfiguration in the monastery of St Saviour.

The rest of the architectural ensemble of the monastery was created around the main Cathedral Church. For many centuries the appearance of the monastery and the Church in General is constantly changing – something disassembled, rebuilt, others were erected. In the early 21st century, after a period of desolation, which literally led to the deaths of the monastery, the process has evolved.

The exact date of construction of the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral is unknown, but it is known that 1560-ies the Church was already in existence. According to many historians, the construction of the Cathedral belongs to 1554. This is because at this time the king donated to the Spaso-Transfiguration monastery, the Kudrinskaya settlement, and, perhaps, the new patrimony was the gift of the king to such a significant event as the completion of construction of the first stone in the monastery Church.

Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral simultaneously with the fact of his erection through the funding of sovereign notes in Scribe books of Murom, which were composed in 1624 Gregory Kirievsky and in 1637 Boris Bartenev.

Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral, which has come down to us practically unchanged (if not to take into account more recent building is not square in plan (for the mistake committed by the builders of the temple, one side of it less than the others), one-storey, three, four, five-domed.

The original dome had one helmet-shaped, but during the reconstructions they have been replaced by bulbous; during the last restoration they returned the helmet-shaped. Separate, for archaic 16th century architectural features (e.g., unusually high Central drum with a height almost equal to the height of the quadrangle and high arches) make possible the assumption, the Cathedral was erected not in Moscow, and Rostov in the wizard.

In 1839, the Cathedral square was expanded by the addition to it of the refectory and covered a wide porch on the West side.

In 1880 the Cathedral was heavily dilapidated and in 1882 Vladimir spiritual Consistory in it was forbidden to conduct services. They were resumed after the completion of the overhaul.

Even more extensive repair and restoration works were carried out after the return of the buildings of the monastery of the Orthodox Church in 1996.