Date of establishment of the Resurrection Cathedral unknown. However, based on information from the inventory of centuries of 1629, there is information that the church was the parish of the Resurrection and about in 1690 was built a stone cathedral with five cupolas. In 1710, he died in the fire, but was soon rebuilt.

Rebuilt temple existed for a short time. Soon, because of the dilapidated state it was destroyed. In 1792, the efforts of the townspeople began to build in existing currently Resurrection Cathedral. In 1799 he was consecrated Bishop of Vladimir and Suzdal Victor. The cathedral is nearly 35 meters, length - about 41 meters, width - 16 meters.

In the church there are icons of the Greek letter. Many of them - in the salaries of gold and silver. Four paintings on the four sides of the throne are decorated with embossed images, which emphasize the importance of the subject. Among other decorations, skillfully and subtly decorated picture frames. They are decorated with grapes and ears as symbols of the Holy Sacrament, which takes place on the throne.

The history of the Cathedral of the Resurrection connected with the history of the miraculous icon of Our Lady of Smolensk Shuyskaya .  In the 54th year of the XVII century Shuya plague raged World .  The townsfolk, fearful of disease, decided to write an icon of Our Lady of Smolensk .  The icon was created Gerasim Tikhanov .  Once the icon has got in Resurrection Church, miracles began .  One of them was the end of the epidemic .  When the painter began work on writing icons, he made initial sketches .  The next day Gerasim saw the outline appeared altered and did not like the script .  Thus, the position of the Infant Jesus and his right leg was not in a position in which he drew up this .  Tikhanov considered it his mistake and corrected written .  However, on the third day, he discovered the fear is the same image of Jesus .  Not correcting what he saw, Tikhanov considered it a miracle, and this donёs authorities and local residents .  Citizens were surprised and frightened by this miracle, and praised God with reverence .  Tikhanov finished the same icon as she herself inscribed .  One of the miracles of the icon - an unusual light emanating from it when it was brought to the church .  Also, there was healing mad boy Yasha Grigorieva .  Healing of ulcers caused the special veneration of the people of the holy icon .  It was visited by many people obsessed with all sorts of illnesses, and healed .  This was recognized in 1667 Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich and Patriarch Joseph .  In order to study these important circumstances Shui arrived special commission, which confirmed the truth of miracles, and was named the Smolensk Icon of the Mother of God Shuyskaya . 

About 40 meters from the cathedral stands the massive bell tower. It consists of four tiers. Belltower is decorated columns and pilasters. The height of the belfry is 106 meters. It is the tallest bell tower in Europe, standing apart from the church.

Its construction was started in 1810. Completion took place in 1832. Construction of the building began in Turin architect Maritselli. But at the III tier structure collapsed. Maritselli escaped, and the construction of the belfry finished Vladimir farmer Michael Savvaty under the supervision of the provincial architect Perov. The third tier of the bell tower was equipped with 11 bells. The most remarkable of these was the bell, which was raised by hand in 1891, on the birthday of Emperor Nicholas II. This bell was cast in Moscow in honor of Xenophon Verevkina salvation of Tsar Alexander III and his family in 1888 during a train accident, which occurred near Kharkov.

In 1991 he transferred to the Russian Orthodox Church of the Resurrection Cathedral. His place in the temple took a copy of the lost-Shumsky Our Lady of Smolensk.

Today is Resurrection Cathedral courtyard of the monastery of St. Nicholas Shartomskoy.