Birth, Death & Chocolate – 11 Miera Street (Part 2)
History & Style In the first years of the 20th century, architects such as Mikhail Eisenstein created the opulent buildings […]
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Birth, Death & Chocolate – Miera Street, Riga (Part 1)
The name for this street, ‘Miera iela’ or ‘Peace Street’ in English, goes back to the mid-19th century. But until
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A Dangerous Sect – Baptists in Latvia
In the middle of the 19th century, most people in modern-day Latvia were either Lutheran, Russian Orthodox or Jewish. These
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Daugavpils Prison “The White Swan”
An imposing white brick building rises four stories high in the center of Daugavpils City. It is surrounded by an
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St. Martin’s Lutheran Church, Riga
St. Martin’s Lutheran Church is one of the most prominent churches in Riga. Until the middle of the 1800s, there
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