Tiskādi Old -Believers Prayer House

Posted 07.04.2014
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Address: Tiskādi, Silmalas pagasts
T: +371 64644830 (municipality)
Short description: Tiskādi Old -Believers Prayer House was built in 1680, a new one building was erected in 1886. The congregation is the oldest one in Latvia. In 1940s Tiskādi Old-Believers congregation was the second biggest one after Rīga Grebenščikova parish.

It is situated in the district which is mostly populated by Old Believers. There exists a legend about the place name: a group of fugitive old-believers settled here and built their houses, and the houses were so „pressed” (Russian – «тискались») between two earlier built houses by people who settled here earlier.

GPS: 56.4522608, 27.0696266

 

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