The name of the village, located fifteen kilometers from Yaroslavl on the way to Danilov, is connected to the name Gabriel, diminutively "Gavsha." In the 17th century, the village was owned by the noble boyar family Dolgovo-Saburov, and in the 1620s it passed into the ownership of the Tolga Monastery. The village features the Savior Church, built in 1773 in the traditional style of 18th-century Yaroslavl rural churches.

N.S. Borisov in his book "Yaroslavl's Trans-Volga" describes the church as having a longitudinal axial arrangement of volumes, including the church itself, the altar apse, the refectory, and the now-lost bell tower. The two-light square of the summer church is covered by a vaulted ceiling and topped with a decorative five-domed structure, widely spaced.

Architectural trends reached the countryside with some delay, so in the decor of the church, one can see elements characteristic of Yaroslavl churches from the second half of the 17th century: the asymmetrical arrangement of windows relative to the main axis of the facade, wide pilasters at the corners, a tier of kokoshniks at the top of the square, and an exquisite pattern of window frames.

In the interior of the church, some frescoes have partially survived, updated in the late 18th century.

Borisov separately notes the successful location of the church: "The Savior Church is memorable not only for its archaic decor and warm, pinkish-brown tone of the murals. Its location is very fortunate. Surrounded by black old linden trees and elevated on a hill above the Sonya River, it seems to float above the ground, evoking the traditional Christian notion of a church as a ship of salvation sailing through the sea of life."