Spaso-Yakovlevsky Monastery or St. Jacob Saviou Monastery is an Eastern Orthodox monastery situated to the left from the Rostov kremlin on the Rostov's outskirts.

 

Monastery was founded in the 14th century by St Iakov of Rostov.

 

The earliest kept building of a monastery is Cathedral of Conception of St Anna (Zachatievsky Cathedral). It has been constructed in 1686. Another 17th-century building is Savior Transfiguration Cathedral (Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral) which once belonged to the abolished Spaso-PXesotsky Monastery.​

 

It has been greatly venerated as the shrine of St. Dmitry of Rostov. Most of the monastery structures were built in the late 18th and early 19th centuries in the fine neoclassical style. The Cathedral of St Dmitry of Rostov has been constructed in 1794–1802 with support of Nikolai Sheremetev's column.

 

The current building of Zachatievsky Cathedral was erected in 1686 in ornamental style. Its vaults are supported by four pillars. The altar is separated from the iconostasis with a stone wall. There are arches between the pillars and the walls.Some ancient frescoes dating back to 1689 still remain there.

 

Dimitriev XXCathedral was built in 1795—1801 in the style of classicism according to the project Moscow architect Sheremetev and serf architects Mironov and Dushkin. The church had no pillars, and its huge dome was supported by very prominent pylons, decorated with two pairs of pilasters made of artificial marble. The cathedral is very light thanks to the altar windows, high side windows and the long windows of the dome.

 

At the entrance of the church there is a refectory with a vaulted ceiling. The church is decorated with stucco work by Ivan Vogt and G.Zamaraev. The main sculpture of the church, called ‘Finding of the relics of St. Dimitri of Rostov’, is located at the front of the northern side.

 

Yakovlevskaya church is attached to Zachatyevsky Cathedral and they share a porch. Yakovlevskaya Church was warm, heated all year round as opposed to the summer Dimitry and irregularly heated in the XIX century Zachatyevsky Cathedral.

 

The paintingswere made by Timothy Medvedev and didn’t survive.

 

Belfry was built in the second half of the XVIII century. It is three-tiered and fairly simple in architecture, so it’s lost a little among the other buildings of the monastery.