On the high right bank of the Volga, two versts from Nizhny Novgorod, stands the snow-white stone church of the Transfiguration of the Lord. It was built in 1794 according to the design of Yakov Ananievich Ananin, the first provincial architect of Nizhny Novgorod.

In the 1330s, a monk named Dionysius, who arrived from Kiev, founded the Caves Monastery at this site, which existed until 1597.

On June 18, 1597, an event changed the fate of the Caves Monastery. Due to abundant groundwater and numerous springs, the mountain collapsed towards the Volga, taking almost all the monastery's buildings with it and revealing the entrance to a cave where the relics of the schema monk Joasaph, who had died 30 years earlier, were discovered.

It was decided to relocate the monastery to a new site closer to the city, leaving an empty church of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker at the old location. In 1640, a fire occurred in the new Caves Monastery, destroying many buildings, including the church of St. Euphemia of Suzdal. After the fire, the Nicholas church was moved to the monastery and consecrated in honor of St. Euphemia of Suzdal, while a memorial cross was erected at the old site.

By the mid-17th century, the main buildings of the Caves Monastery were constructed of stone, and a decision was made to build a new Nicholas church at the old site. It stood until 1782, when a fire destroyed the wooden structure. After that, the monastery received permission from the Synod to build a stone church and 500 rubles from the treasury.

In 1785, the church was completed, and Bishop Damaskin consecrated the first warm altar in honor of the Apostle John the Theologian, and in 1794, the second altar in honor of St. Nicholas. On June 13, 1798, Bishop Paul consecrated the main altar in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord.

From 1939 to 1942, the church was closed, but in 1943, services resumed. That same year, Archbishop Sergey Grishin consecrated the main altar in honor of the Transfiguration of the Lord, the second in honor of St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, the third in honor of St. John the Theologian, and the fourth in honor of St. Schema monk Joasaph. Beneath the church lies a cave with the relics of St. Schema monk Joasaph of the Caves.

The Church of the Transfiguration of the Lord is one of the few in Nizhny Novgorod that was almost never closed during the Soviet era and where services were regularly held, attracting believers from all around. Today, the church has been preserved almost in its original form, undergoing only minor changes. The interior decoration with a gilded iconostasis, frescoes on biblical themes, candlesticks, and icons creates an atmosphere of splendor, bringing peace, joy, and purification to the parishioners.