The most striking architectural landmark Zarechnaya part of Nizhny Novgorod (Sormovo) is the Transfiguration Cathedral, built in 1903 by the famous architect Paul Malinowski.

In the late nineteenth century in the ancient village Sormovo that were near Nizhny Novgorod, booming industry and the temple, built in 1882 in honor of the Holy Prince Alexander Nevsky, could no longer accommodate the congregation. In 1898 it was decided to erect a new, larger Church. Fundraising and donations carried out by employees of the Sormovo plant lists pennies from each paycheck (subsequently people behind the temple got the name "Penny"). In September 1900, a solemn laying of the temple Foundation, designed for 2000 parishioners. During the construction Malinowski was designed by the expansion of the temple for additional throne, and by the autumn of 1903 Transfiguration Church appeared before the congregation. The interior of the main temple was decorated with a six-tier carved iconostasis is crowned with a wrought-iron cross, and to the king's gate was raised seven marble steps of the Solea.

In its original form the Church stood not more than twenty years. In 1927 belfry was destroyed, and in the 30th disassembled metal roof. In 1934 the building of the temple is an orphanage of culture, and later mutilated by numerous partitions, the Church was turned into a warehouse of Pistola. In 1998, the building work began on the restoration in 1990. the sanctuary was finally. Simultaneously with the restoration of the building was restored by the photos of the iconostasis, a fence, a house of clergy, and was conducted landscaping around the Cathedral.

In our days Sormovskiy Transfiguration Cathedral in neo-Byzantine style - a beautiful architectural landmark in Nizhny Novgorod and a monument of history and culture of the early twentieth century. The building of the Cathedral is decorated with a large Central dome (43 meters), the pedestal of which are the half-dome, oriented towards the cardinal points. The facades are decorated with double white columns between the Windows, white patterns curtain rods and blue glasses, combined with blue-gray roof domes.

In the mid 50-ies of XX century Sormovskiy the temple became the backdrop in the filming of I. pyreva on the novel by Gorky's "Mother".