Savior's Cathedral of the Transfiguration Monastery

The Savior Cathedral of the Transfiguration Monastery is located in the city of Murom and is a three-absid five-domed temple, an architectural monument of the XVI century. It is part of the ensemble of the men’s monastery of the Murom diocese of the Russian Orthodox Church, on the left bank of the Oka River.

The cathedral was erected by order of Ivan the Terrible, in memory of the victory over Kazan, on the site of a wooden church. It is believed that construction began in the 1560s. The building from the outside looks underline monumental, and five bulbous chapters are installed on wide "drums" with narrow windows illuminating the inside of the temple. The cathedral is distinguished by strict simplicity, severity, modest ornamentation.

The interior inside the temple is dominated by the power of undivided walls and square pillars, smoothly flowing into heavy vaults. The building of the cathedral was slightly changed after in 1839, according to the project of the architect Y. Petrov, a refectory, covered wide papert was added to it from the west side, window openings were enlarged. Significant restructurings were carried out during the restoration of the Spasska Cathedral in 1885.

In the 1990s, the restorers, if possible, returned their original image to the unique monument, but some reconstructions bearing the imprint of past eras were preserved, without destroying its integral image.