According to legend, the name "Misharin mountain" comes from a certain clerk Munekhin Misyura, who lived in the first half of the 16th century, who was known for his charity work in relation to God's churches. Authoritative ethnographer Okulich Casarin-NS rather the most plausible version of the origin of the name of the temple, from small swamps, wore the name mshary, because it is such swamps sometime in antiquity and was surrounded by a mountain.
The construction of the stone church occurred in 1547. Initially, the church was the monastery. The Scribe records book in 1623 mentions the men's monastery with Misharin Kotelnikovo mountains. This is what is written in the monastery of the All-Russian Chetyah Mina Metropolitan Macarius. There is speculation that the abbot of the monastery Nyquist during the 60s of the 16th century was Vassili Barlaam, who is the author lives of Alexander Nevsky, Pskov Evfrosina.
In 1808, the temple was intended for demolition as a very old, but still the Holy Synod did not consent to this action. In 1882, a merchant from Pskov Stehnovskim Peter Mikhailovich front door was built a stone outbuilding. During the 1892-1896 years were conducted restoration works on cash churchwarden - Kafelnikov Ivan Mikhailovich - an honorary citizen of the city of Pskov. The church has two thrones, the main of which is the throne of the Evangelist and Apostle John the Theologian, and the second is called in the name of the Holy Martyr John the Warrior. During the years 1786-1808 the church was assigned to vzvoz George Temple, and in 1934 was credited with the church of the Holy Apostles Emperor Constantine and his mother Queen Helena.
The church bell tower was built at the same time with the construction of the temple of St. John the Baptist. The bell hung six bells. In the parish there were three chapels, built of wood: St. Nicholas the Wonderworker, and near the village Hryastolovo Holy Martyr Anastasia and St. Martyr Anastasia.
The church of John the Baptist existed hospice, parochial custody, the hospital, but a parochial school was never built. At the end of the 19th century in a village called Goat Brod it was built by the church parish school, but soon in 1895 because of the proximity to other city schools it was closed.
Along the perimeter of the whole church is a cemetery in which are buried the historian and ethnographer Tsvylёv SA, Smirnov restorer VP and soldiers who died during their combat duty.
Since 1913, the temple served as a priest Kolobov Fedor. In 1927, after he was arrested several times, Fedor was exiled to the Urals. Kolobov wife followed him, then no information about them has been reported. Acolyte, deacon was Mikhail Lebedev, but his later life nothing is known.
December 23, 1936, it was decided to close the church, but according to other sources, the service continued until World War II. During the war, the temple has received some damage to walls, roofs, interior and exterior. During the years 1970-1989 by the architect V. Lebedev It has been carrying out a complete restoration of the church. March 3rd, 1965 the church cemetery was closed for burials.
The first service began in 1992 with the entrance of the temple. The revival of the Church of St. John the Baptist is closely intertwined with the name of a famous abbot of Jonah. Contribute to the restoration of the church and director of the Pskov Cable Plant Viktor Kukushkin.
In 2001, Pskov Archbishop Eusebius makes consecrated eight bells, which were cast in Voronezh on the ancient way. Today in the church Sunday school and made the pilgrimage office, which received the status of the diocesan.