Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery

Monastery of St. Jacob Saviour is an Eastern Orthodox monastery situated to the left from the Rostov kremlin on the Rostov's outskirts.The monastery was founded in 1389 by St Iakov of Rostov, who was banished from his town for sparing a woman sentenced to death. Iakov moved south from Rostov and settled near the church of Archangel Michael, built in the 11th century by St Leontiy of Rostov.

From the 14th up to the late 17th century all the buildings in the monastery were made of wood. The earliest kept building is Cathedral of Conception of St Anna. It has been constructed in 1686. Another 17th-century building is Savior Transfiguration Cathedral which once belonged to the abolished Spaso-Pesotsky Monastery.