Cathedral of the Savior Transfiguration Monastery came here as a fulfillment of the promise given by Ivan the Terrible before going to Kazan in 1552. Praying in the monasteries of Murom and Murom worship shrines, he vowed to achieve victory in the event in Murom build stone churches. Ivan the Terrible fulfilled the promise, and one erected by his order, the churches became the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral in the Spassky Monastery.

The rest of the architectural ensemble of the cloister was created around the main cathedral church. For centuries, the face of the temple and monastery as a whole is constantly changing - something dismantled, something rebuilt, something erected anew. At the beginning of the 21st century, after a period of neglect, which literally did not lead to the death of the monastery, the process is a new development.

The exact date of construction of the Transfiguration Cathedral is unknown, but it is known that 1560 years of the temple already existed. According to many historians, the construction of the cathedral belongs to 1554. This is due to the fact that at this time the king donated the Holy Transfiguration Monastery Kudrino suburb, and it is possible that a new king of the patrimony is a gift to such major events as the end of construction of the first stone church in the monastery.

Transfiguration Cathedral together with the fact that its construction of the means of the Emperor celebrated in Murom scribal books, which were compiled in 1624 by Gregory Kirievsky and in 1637 Boris Bartenev.

Transfiguration Cathedral, which reached our time almost unchanged (if not to take into account recent building) - it's not quite square in plan (for the mistake admitted by the builders of the temple, one side of his less than the others), floor, trehapsidny chetyrehstolpny, pyatikupolny.

Initially, it had a helmet dome shape, but during reconstructions have been replaced with bulbs; during the last restoration it returned helmet-shaped. Some archaic for the 16th century architectural features (such as unusually high central drum with a height almost equal to the height of the quadrangle and high arches) allow the assumption that the temple was not erected in Moscow and Rostov masters.

In 1839, the area of ​​the Cathedral was expanded by an extension to the dining room and it covered a wide porch on the west side.

In 1880, the cathedral became dilapidated and in 1882 Vladimir's Theological Consistory it was barred from conducting services. They were resumed after the overhaul.

More large-scale restoration works were carried out after the return of the buildings of the monastery of the Orthodox Church in 1996.