Outside 2nd Mill, home of 61 of the city of Shuya is a beautiful temple, consecrated in honor of the Transfiguration in 1836. It is known that before the 17th century belonged to the village of Mill patrimony Russian princes by the name Shuisky, and in the 19th century the estate was Decembrist Szymanowski NV Today, this village rightfully part of the city. Near the temple is a holy spring of St. Nicholas.

One of the notable features of the church is its location, historic background, decoration, and even modern history. The structure of the church complex includes a temple, a lodge and a small rural cemetery located on a beautiful hillside, which encircle the territory of the river and Motovilikha Ceja. In the course of the 17th century these rivers were located mill, therefore, because of the mill, the village got its name. The height of the hill was quite small, but the general background of the local area Church of the Saviour was clearly visible even from the northern entrance to the town of Shuya, namely Aspen mountain road from the introduction, Ivanov and Dunilova.

Once it passed the Great Patriotic War in Shuya church life there have been many important events, related solely to the Church of the Transfiguration. In the 30 years the church was closed, but in the 40s he was again open. When the church has not acted, her room was used as a warehouse and a small workshop. Beginning in the late 40th and ending 90 years of the Temple was the only functioning of all existing in the town of Shuya. After the church was closed, we were lost important religious items and values ​​that only a certain part of the offset due to the collected donations from local residents, because with their help, managed to return to the important religious books and icons.

The church visible features of late classicism and the traditional pseudo-Russian style .  Construction of the church was carried out in several stages with the diligence Shuia merchants .  Construction of the current church today lasted for decades, because the original was built a wooden church, which was in 1711; then built a temple in honor of St. Jacob with a small bell tower in 1822, and then the temple was turned into stone, while in the warm part was resettled chapel of the Transfiguration in 1869 .  Judging by the surviving sources, the construction of the church was carried out from west to east, following from the bell tower and the altar .  The name of the Church is constantly changing for the rule of a throne, so in the past it was called Preobrazhensky, then Nikolsky .  Today the church is called back of the Transfiguration, which is reflected on the north wall and in the diocesan records .  Before, in the 90s it opened the Transfiguration Cathedral, the church was a cathedral .

Documentary evidence of the appearance of the church has not been found. The well-known ethnographer Vladimir Borisov believed that there was a temple during the reign of Ivan the Terrible. It is assumed that the Church of the Transfiguration was originally the house of the house of the princes Shuisky, who were the owners of the village before the start of the 16th century. The most interesting are descriptions of some of the tombstones princesses in which you can see only half of the lost inscription belonging to the genus Shuiskis located at the church cemetery in the 19th century.

If you take into account all the interesting information about the church of the Transfiguration, the most important is the mention of the so-called underground passages that could be directly related to the period of the invasion of the Polish-Lithuanian forces, but it is unlikely that their total length is so long.

Among the important attractions listed old icon, famous for its miraculous properties, which depict St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, and - this icon was previously in the mill church. Many visitors to the city has always been to this icon, which is saved on a variety of troubles and diseases.