The church of the nativity of St. John the Baptist with the pale of Martyr Paraskeva

The temple stands on Malysheva Mountain. The church of the nativity of St. John the Baptist was built in 1695 and was the first stone building in ancient St. John the Baptist monastery founded in the first half of the XIII century by Novgorod archbishop Clement. The convent did not conclude the stone buildings; the cells, two churches of St. John the Baptist and the church of Ascension were wooden. The Godunovs family favoured the monastery; two bells were moulded with the inscription of the Royal family especially for the shrine in 1604.

The architects erected the stone church high above the Volhov. Four-pillared temple with five cupolas one of them prominent to the east apsis seems elevated over Ladoga. Among five cupolas only medium is skylight. The building is linked with a small pale of martyr Paraskeva from the North, with porch from the South and with a massive church door with a bell tower mounted on its vaults from the South. The architectural style of the church is in many ways Muskovy, which became archaic by the end of the XVII century. Currently the church of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist is opened for the parish giving the church service.