Goritsky Assumption monastery was founded in the first half of the XIV century, under Ivan Kalita. In this monastery he was ordained Reverend Daniel. He lived in a monastery Goritsky from 1495 to 1525gg .; come to him many pilgrims flocked. Grand Prince Vasily III invited Daniel to the cross to his son Ivan - the future Tsar Ivan the Terrible. The monastery is often visited by kings and their families, and in the sacristy gathered a lot of royal gifts.

Assumption Cathedral - the main building of the monastery Goritsky - was started in the mid-1750s. The cathedral is crowned with five domes with widely spaced domes. On either side of the refectory of the church apses preserved outbuildings - traces of the failed grand architectural complex. It impresses with its scale and the interior of the cathedral. It is richly decorated with stucco and paintings of the Baroque; over its decoration worked the best masters of the New Jerusalem. The unique multi-tiered gilded iconostasis was made by the famous Moscow master Yakov Zhukov and decorated with baroque columns, figures and floral patterns. Icons for him to write the master of the New Jerusalem. The interiors of the church suffered greatly from the fact that the room was "summer", that is not heated, and the winter cold applied annually considerable harm stucco and wall painting.

Refectory with the Church of All Saints was built, according to the decoration, in the last decades of the XVII century. Rises high above the walls of the monastery church besstolpny bushel crowned with five domes on thin patterned drums. The windows of the temple, the apse and the refectory framed by curly frames.

Main vertical monastery - the bell tower from the Epiphany Church - began to build in the 1760s., Then construction has stalled and it was brought to an end in the 1780s. This imposing and majestic four-tiered building with a small church in the lower tier. When Pereslavl diocese was abolished, the bells were taken away and moved to St. Petersburg, the bell tower of the fortress. Now the bell tower is arranged a spacious observation deck, which offers magnificent views of the city.

In the middle of the XVIII century in the middle of the monastery was dug pond "for precautions against fire cases." Pond filled with water artificially, through pipes, conducted from a nearby pond at the walls of the monastery.

Now the monastery is located Historical and Architectural Museum-Reserve. The collection of the Museum brought from the closed churches and monasteries of the city in the 1920s. church utensils, icons, and brought to the manor estates furniture, household items and much more.