Goritsky monastery of the Dormition was founded in the first half of the fourteenth century, under Ivan Kalita. In this monastery he was ordained Reverend Daniel. He lived in the Goritsky monastery 1495 on gg.; here it attracted many pilgrims. Grand Prince Vasily III invited Daniel godparents to his son Ivan, the future Tsar Ivan the terrible. The monastery was often visited by kings and their families, and in the vestry gathered a lot of Royal gifts.

Assumption Cathedral – the main building of the Goritsky monastery began in the mid-1750s, the Cathedral is crowned with five domes with widely spaced domes. Flanking the apse of the refectory of the Church preserved outbuildings – traces of the failed grandiose architectural complex. Striking in its scope and the interior of the Cathedral. It is richly decorated with stucco and paintings in the Baroque style; its interior was created by the best artists of the New Jerusalem. A unique multi-tiered gilded iconostasis performed under the guidance of the famous Moscow painter Jacob Zhukov and decorated with Baroque columns, figures and floral patterns. The icons were written by the master of the New Jerusalem. The interiors of the Church was greatly damaged by the fact that the room was "old", i.e., not heated, and the winter cold every year, it caused significant damage to the stucco and wall paintings.

The refectory with the all saints Church was built, judging by the decoration, in the last decades of the seventeenth century. High rising above the walls of the monastery pillarless quadrangle of the Church is crowned with five cupolas on thin patterned drums. The Windows of the temple, apses and refectory framed with scalloped trims.

The main vertical monastery – bell tower of the Epiphany Church began construction in the 1760s, then construction had stalled and was completed in the 1780s, This is an impressive and imposing four-storey building with a small Church in the lower tier. When Pereslavl diocese was abolished, the bells were removed from here and moved to St. Petersburg, the bell tower of the Peter and Paul fortress. Now the bell is arranged in a spacious viewing platform with a magnificent view over the city.

In the middle of the XVIII century in the middle of the monastery was excavated pond "for precautions against fire." The pond was filled with water artificially, through the pipes drawn from the surrounding pond near the monastery walls.

Now the monastery is a Historical-architectural and art Museum-reserve. The collection of the Museum were removed from the closed churches and monasteries of the city in the 1920s, Church utensils, icons, and brought with manor estates furniture, household items and much more.