The brick cathedral was built at the expense of the Moscow merchant G. Ya. Obukhov in the period 1680-1713, with a freestanding pillar-shaped tent bell tower, built in 1693. The five-domed quadrangle of the cathedral was covered with a high domed roof with lucarnes. Side chapels: Dmitry Prilutsky and Gerasim Iordansky. It was blown up in the early 1930s after the monastery was closed, and the bell tower was destroyed. In 1999-2005, V. I. Tyryshkin built a new large five-domed Russian-style church on the site of the old cathedral, with the side chapels of Dimitrievsky and Gerasimov adjacent to the western porch. The architecture of the new temple is close to the cathedral churches of the XVI century.
The cathedral houses the relics of St. Nicholas. Andrei Smolensky, acquired in 2000.