It would be a classical-style Lutheran church like many others if it wasn't made entirely of wood, which makes it a unique architectural gem that dominates the quiet and pretty square.
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Maskavas Forštate, Avotu Iela & Grīziņkalns
Lonely Planet's must-see attractions
Alberta Iela
1.32 MILES
Like a huge painting that you can spend hours staring at, as your eye detects more and more intriguing details, this must-see Rīga sight is in fact a…
Pilsētas Kanāls (City Canal)
1.17 MILES
Pilsētas kanāls, the city’s old moat, once protected the medieval walls from invaders. Today the snaking ravine has been incorporated into a thin belt of…
Rīga Central Market
0.34 MILES
Haggle for your huckleberries at this vast market, housed in a series of WWI Zeppelin hangars and spilling outdoors as well. It's an essential Rīga…
Rīga Cathedral
0.89 MILES
Founded in 1211 as the seat of the Rīga diocese, this enormous (once Catholic, now Evangelical Lutheran) cathedral is the largest medieval church in the…
Blackheads House
0.74 MILES
Built in 1344 as a veritable fraternity house for the Blackheads guild of unmarried German merchants, the original house was bombed in 1941 and flattened…
Art Museum Rīga Bourse
0.9 MILES
Rīga’s lavishly restored 1852 stock exchange building is a worthy showcase for the city's art treasures. The elaborate facade features a coterie of…
Freedom Monument
0.79 MILES
Affectionately known as ‘Milda’, Rīga’s Freedom Monument towers above the city between Old and Central Rīga. Paid for by public donations, the monument…
Rīga Castle
1.09 MILES
Built in 1330 as the headquarters of the grand master of the Livonian Order, this building has been much mutated over the years and now only looks…
Nearby Maskavas Forštate, Avotu Iela & Grīziņkalns attractions
1. Holocaust Memorial
0.13 MILES
This moving Holocaust Memorial is on the site of a large 1871 synagogue that was burned to the ground on 4 July, 1941 during WWII, with the entire…
2. Latvian Academy of Science Observation Deck
0.13 MILES
This Stalinesque tower is a not-so-welcome Soviet-era present from Moscow, which has seven towers just like it, only bigger. Construction of what is often…
3. Rīga Ghetto & Latvian Holocaust Museum
0.22 MILES
The centrepiece of this arresting and challenging museum is a wooden house with a reconstructed flat, like those that Jews had to move into when the Nazis…
4. Spīķeri
0.24 MILES
The shipping yard behind the Central Market is the latest district to benefit from a generous dose of gentrification. These crumbling brick warehouses…
6. Rīga Central Market
0.34 MILES
Haggle for your huckleberries at this vast market, housed in a series of WWI Zeppelin hangars and spilling outdoors as well. It's an essential Rīga…
7. Popular Front Museum
0.57 MILES
A branch of the National History Museum, this exhibition involving interactive multimedia technology covers the period of the third Atmoda (national…
8. Rīga Synagogue
0.59 MILES
Built in 1905, this art nouveau–style synagogue was the only one to survive the Nazi occupation – to torch it in the tightly packed Old Town would have…