Church of the Ascension is located in Kalyazin on Engels Street, 1. It was built in 1783. According to the original idea, it was a cemetery church, referring to Nikolsky (Nikolaev) cathedral. It was built when the cemetery Nikolsky parish was moved from the cathedral to a place more distant from the city center. At the cemetery he was buried famous kalyazintsy, clergy, merchants, intellectuals and commoners.

Initially, the church was one throne - in honor of the Ascension. Over time the church were added two chapels: Macarius of Kalyazin and Tikhvin. In Macarius chapel of St. Macarius the icon was kept from the relics, in Tikhvin - very revered icon of Our Lady of Tikhvin - a list of the famous miraculous icon.

The main scope of the Ascension church was 5 tiglavym. The facades of the chapels were decorated in the style of "eclectic" with pseudo-elements, which was very popular in the II half of the XIX century. Impressive 3-ehyarusnaya majestic bell tower, made in the style of "classicism." It is richly decorated with paired columns, pediments and rustication. Thin tall spire - the final element of the structure. As if it is designed to overlap with the bell tower of St. Nicholas Cathedral, the elegant, in the same style, which now stands in the middle of the Uglich reservoir, over the flooded part of Kalyazin.

In Soviet times, the Ascension Church was abolished. Bakery located here, and at the site of the ancient cemetery appeared Stadium. The temple gradually fell into disrepair, and only from the 1990s, he began his new life. It is still in a state of ruinirovannom is another church building - likely cemetery chapel of the Sacred gateway, unpreserved to the present. Lost and interior of the church.

The temple itself has for the most part restored, although the work is not enough. However, in the restored church has held worship, it is remarkable - not in the aisle, and in the central part.

In 2009, the south of the temple was a monument dedicated to the victory, which won the Russian soldiers in 1609 under Kalyazin over the Polish-Lithuanian regiments. The authors of the monument were sculptors AG Komlev and EA Antonov. The funds were collected townspeople. The troops of the invaders plundered and destroyed Kalyazin, and this victory for kalyazintsev is not only a glorious history of the event, but also an act of revenge. On the memorial plaque engraved the name of the leader of the Russian troops - Prince Mikhail Vasilyevich Skopin-Shumsky, there are the names and the Polish-Lithuanian military commanders - and Zborowski Sapieha. The symbolism of the monument is very clear - the eagle, which symbolizes our country - to the fallen banners of the Polish-Lithuanian troops. Below on the boulder is a portrait of Skopin-Shumsky.