Church of the Saviour in the town, Eastern Orthodox church in Yaroslavl, Russia

The Church of the Saviour in the Town is a brick church in the historic centre of Yaroslavl, near the Kotorosl River. Its cubic main volume, four pillars and five onion domes on tall drums are surrounded on three sides by a covered gallery, with a tented bell tower over the west corner. The north facade, facing the former market square, is the most ornate.

A wooden church already existed here in the first half of the 13th century, under princes Vasily and Konstantin, who donated the Govorovo wasteland to it; charters of 1631 and 1646 confirmed the holding until 1917. After the great fire of 1658 destroyed the church, the merchant Ignaty Kislov paid for a stone church on the same spot in 1672, modelled on the Church of John Chrysostom in Korovniki. Its main altar was consecrated to the Feast of the Origin of the Honest Trees of the Cross.

The church belongs to the Yaroslavl school of architecture, a local style that developed in the city during the 17th century and is known for its richly decorated brick facades. Looking at the exterior, visitors can spot the colorful ceramic friezes and the carefully arranged window rows that define this tradition.

The church stands in the historic centre of Yaroslavl, on the sloping banks of the Kotorosl River near its confluence with the Volga, at the edge of the former Rubleny town district. Its main, more ornate facade faces north, toward the old market square, while the south-west side once ran almost against the fortress wall. The building was used as a warehouse from 1936 into the 1990s, so the interior no longer has its original iconostasis.

The church's main facade is the north one, not the west, because it faced the market square; the fortress wall ran almost against the southwest side. The north tented chapel was built with the church in 1672, while the south domed chapel was rebuilt in the 19th century.