The complex, the Spasskaya and Nikolskaya churches (Spasskaya str., 8). Located on the place wherein 1164, Andrei Bogolyubsky founded his own princely court and built a white stone Church of the Saviour. Later, it formed Zlatovratski Spassky monastery, which existed until 1764.
The existing Church of the Saviour built in the late XVIII century, made of brick instead of an ancient, burned in 1778. As shown by archeological excavations carried out here under the guidance of Professor N. Voronin, a new Church was built on the foundations of the old with partial use in the lower parts of the walls of the ancient white stone.
Apparently, the original Church of the Savior in the forms it was close to the Church of the Intercession on the Nerl, built a year later. It was a small four-column cross Cathedral, decorated by the arcature-columnar zone with thread. Floors were laid with glazed tiles like those used in most of the Vladimir-Suzdal buildings of the XII century.