Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral is the main Cathedral of Torzhok. He came to our time in the guise of 1822. This is one of the best works of Russian classicism of the first half of the 19th century.

First Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral in the city was built in 1364 by the Novgorodians. It was located on the site of a wooden Church that burned by the Mongols in 1238. The Cathedral was built on the money part of it and Novgorod merchants. In 1372, when the Torzhok ravaged squad Tver Prince Mikhail Alexandrovich, in this temple suffocated and burned, many residents of the city. Later, the Cathedral was again restored.

In 1406, in the temple in located under the floor of the crypt were buried a part of Prince Vyazemsky with his wife Uliana killed the Smolensk Prince Yuri.

By the end of the 18th century Cathedral of the Transfiguration, which by this time stood for over four hundred years, came in a state of disrepair, needed urgent restoration work. In 1780, by an Imperial decree of Catherine II to build a new temple in the name of the Governor Sievers was allocated to 7 thousand rubles, but these funds in 1782 were aimed at the erection of the Church of Boris and Gleb monastery.

In 1810 merchants from Torzhok asked the Governor of Tver, Prince of Oldenburg, to apply for government allocation of new funds for the construction of the temple. In 1815, the old Cathedral was demolished and in its place was built a new temple. When cleaning the excavation for the building was found a secret passage, leading from the Cathedral to the river Tvertsa, which was lined vaults.

The author of the project of the new Transfiguration Cathedral is still unknown. Estimates for construction amounted to apprentice architect Ivan Maxev. Claimed his Carl Rossi, chief architect at the Governor of Tver. Interested in local history does not exclude the possibility that the project has developed himself a prominent architect. The Cathedral was built between 1815 and 1822, the plan is a square, it is crowned with five domes. Each side of the building is decorated with a classic portico.

Beside the Saviour's Transfiguration Cathedral entry into Jerusalem is the Church, which was erected in 1842 on the project of Lviv I. F. This is a single-domed winter Church, which, by its appearance echoes of the Transfiguration Cathedral. Her vaults were decorated with paintings made on wet plaster with water based paints. The interior of the temple, including the objects of worship were acquired with funds of the brothers James, Stepan and Mikhail Uvarov, St. merchants.

Worship in both churches ceased in 1930, then was demolished Cathedral belltower. For a long time at the Transfiguration Cathedral was a club, and in the hall of the temple sounded heavy rock. Now Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral was restored, but not yet in effect.