Spaso-Evfimiev monastery

In 1352 the Suzdal-Nizhniy Novgorod prince Boris Konstantinovich has founded Spasskiy monastery named later Spaso-Evfimiev monastery in honour of the first hegumen of a monastery.
In XVI century wooden monastic constructions are replaced stone. Most ancient of them - a small temple above Evfimiy tomb, become in 1564 side-altar of Spaso-preobrazhenskiy cathedral constructed by a line.

In 1642 from an altar of a cathedral in the patrimonial tomb the national hero of Russia prince Dmitry Mikhajlovich Pozharsky has been buried.
On the cathedral area of a monastery the case of archimandrite (XVII), a monastic belfry (XVI-XVII) on which concerts of peals are arranged settles down Uspenskaya tent dining church (1525�.). To the east from a cathedral there are sick-lists rooms with Nikolskaya church (XVII century) and the two-storeyed brotherly private case (XVII-XIX). The territory of a monastery is limited by fortifications with 12 towers of XVII century. Now Spaso-Evfimiev monastery is the largest museum ensemble of city.

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