Somewhat higher Tolchkovskoy settlement on the territory of the Holy Transfiguration Monastery once stood Skovorodsky Nicholas Monastery, and next to it was a small village Melenki. Melenki got its name after previously operating in the territory flour windmills. It is believed that the name of the monastery comes from the cast-iron frying pan or a beat, with which the monks announce the beginning of the service. There are opinions that the name is mentioned in the clay soil, on which stood a monastery.

From the history of the monastery it is known that in 1609 the monastery ruined Poles, and during the 1650s when it was living holy fool blessed Elijah, who foreshadowed the fire quell almost the whole city. In the 1660s the monastery was abolished. At this point in 1668 it took the inception of rock with the chapel of St. Nicholas Church of St. Procopius. The consecration of the temple took place in the autumn of the aligned 1672. During the years 1705-1707 was carried out mural work of the small temple at the farm painters from Yaroslavl. Once all the construction works were completed, the church was consecrated again Saint Demetrius - Rostov Metropolitan.

Until now reached us satin corporal, presented by St. Demetrius. One of the most important icons of the church has become an icon of St. Nicholas, which is in summer temple - she was able to survive in the devastating fire and remained completely untouched by fire. Many parishioners venerated the icon as miraculous. In addition to this, there were two icons: the Mother of God "Blessed is the womb" and "Joy of All Who Sorrow."

In mid-1683 it was completed one dome warm stone Church of the Assumption of Our Lady, which in 1885 was equipped chapel, which was consecrated in honor of the icon "Joy of All Who Sorrow."

It is important to note that the constant benefactors and donors were wealthy merchants of the temple by the name Karzinkin. Since the 17th century, when the Church of St. Nicholas Melnitskaya were also held small Synodicon, which recorded the most important and significant events in the life of Yaroslavl, as well as throughout the country. In Synodikon also mentioned the names for the commemoration, which recorded it for three centuries. In 1908, this source was published father Dimitri Baptist that provided considerable importance for the whole of Yaroslavl, because it was possible to recover all the events that took place year after year, which is especially remembered by other developments.

In the 1890s, a partnership of the Yaroslavl Big manufactory has decided to build a completely new church, but the tab is held only in the summer of 1904. The project of the church was designed by the renowned academician of architecture named Vasilyev AI Church finished only in 1908 - just in time for the 50th anniversary of the factory, which was the sign of the expression of genuine gratitude to the Lord for its fruitful existence.

In the autumn of 1908 the church was consecrated in the framework of the ceremony. The church had three altars, the main one of which - consecrated in honor of John the Faster, and the other two pridelnyh - in honor of St. Andrew of Crete, and the Archangel Michael. It is these saints were chosen as saints thrones, because they were the patron founders partnership BYAM. The temple was built on the allocation of funds Andrei Alexandrovich and Ivan and Gabriel A. Karzinkin Matveevitch Igumnova. The temple contains about three thousand people.

If you have to operate three schools: one-class of 450 students, parochial, accommodating 120 students and a school dedicated to literacy for 240 students. On the arrival of affected Predtechevskoe temperance society, meetings which are sometimes held in the theater hall BYAM.

Nicholas Church had before the chapel, located on Broad Street, and workers built in memory of the factory population recovery from a cholera epidemic in 1892. In 1939 the bell tower was demolished and closed during the Soviet era, the church was returned to the Russian Orthodox Church in 1995.