The Church of Holy Face of the Lord Jesus Christ is the Pskov Orthodox church. It is also called the Church Obrazskoy a toad Ławica (so-called small swamp, which was built around the church).

For the first time the temple was mentioned in chronicles in 1487, when Pskov was a terrible plague. In September 1540 in the city, Zapskove, there was a large fire, but the wooden church was not damaged. There is no evidence as to when the church made of wood was replaced by the current. In the documents of 1745 to the temple "nerukotvorennogo image from Zapskove that Ilyinsky Gates" was attributed to the parish 25 yards. In 1852, the church was dedicated to demolition and pulled almost to half, but in 1854, and other sources - in 1857 - the church was restored. Rather, at this time it was made flat floor of wood and hollow drum. In November 1931 the church was closed and the building was occupied by workshops schools.

In 1960, under the leadership of BS Skobel'tsyn here were carried out architectural and archaeological survey of the building, made a partial re-creation and reconstruction of the interior of the quadrangle. The temple was converted into a retail outlet and warehouse. In the same year, in August, the church's Holy Face of the Lord Jesus Christ was declared a monument of national significance and is taken under state protection.

The length of the church is 30 meters, width - 20 meters. Built of the local limestone slabs on mortar. Chetverik - besstolpny, odnoapsidny, a flat wooden ceiling, which serves as a support for decorating deaf drum ending bulbous head. Apse - altar, semi-cylindrical. On the west side of the quadrangle to the attached porch and porch with large openings, laid down from the north and south. On the south side chapel adjacent to the church, which has a rectangular apse. Above it is a tent and a bulbous head on the decorative drum. On the west wall of the chapel belfry completed. It has 3 pillars 2 and blocked the passage of a gable roof. Belfry - asymmetric, shifted to the south-western part of the wall.

Decoration of the temple facades different modesty. On the northern and southern facades of the quadrangle are partially preserved blades. On the south side you can see a small niche with arches keeled. The north and south walls of the quadrangle have large window openings, decorated with onion arched bridges. In the southwest corner of the quadrangle - the doorway leading into the south aisle. In the northern wall - a small doorway. Two windows in the apse there.

Korobov vault having stripping on windows and covers the southern chapel located above it little room. The eastern part of the chapel contains the remains of a ceramic floor, which belongs to the XVII century. Paul Temple has no analogues among the local churches and civic buildings. The floor consists of a pattern of squares, parallelograms, rectangles, diamonds and narrow, forming a band that would limit the central path that runs along the aisle. Tiles are made in a reddish-brown, dark brown and light yellow.

The primary form of preserved pridelnyh south facade and attic. The southern facade - 2 windows with onion arched bridges. The attic also has 2 small slit-like windows, between which there is a niche with arches keeled. Gable roof covers the little room. On the roof - a decorative drum head and a metal cross.

The central part of the porch covers Korobov vault, based on the 2 side Korobov vault, which are arranged perpendicular to the center. The vestibule has a gable roof. In the northern wall there are 2 deep burial niches.

The Church of Holy Face of the Lord Jesus Christ is a historical and cultural monument of federal importance.