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Come and join ''TheCelotajs'' take a journey back through early time by strolling through the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum Part I. ''TheCelotajs'' Note: Due to the size of the museum, the area it covers, its many different buildings and exhibits as well as the amount to photographs taken to show it all, I had to divide this presentation into four parts so you can enjoy it and see it all. Each part is 10 minutes long, so if you don't get through it all in one setting, feel free to ...

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Come and join ''TheCelotajs'' take a journey back through early time by strolling through the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum Part II. Ethnographic Open-Air Museum was founded in 1924. The project envisaged to transport homesteads and social buildings characteristic of Kurzeme, Zemgale, Vidzeme and Latgale to the museum and re-erect them there. In 1928 the first building - a threshing-barn of the 18th century - was set up on old sand hills covered by a pine forest at Lake Jugla. In 1932 ...

Tags: Tour Travel Events Riga Latvia City of History Historical Buildings Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum Building Household Objects People 18th Century 1928 1932 1939 Lake Jugla Kurzeme Zemgale Vidzeme Latgale

Come and join ''TheCelotajs'' take a journey back through early time by strolling through the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum Part III. The collection of Latvian Ethnographic Open -Air Museum is made up of 140 000 items. At present 121 ancient buildings with more than 3000 household objects are on display in the area of 87 hectars. Almost all the sections of the population and ethnic groups as well as their social and material culture are represented there. Like households of Latvian ...

Tags: Tour Travel Events Riga Latvia City of History Historical Buildings Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum Building Household Objects People 18th Century 1928 1932 1939 Lake Jugla Kurzeme Zemgale Vidzeme Latgale

Come and join ''TheCelotajs'' take a journey back through early time by strolling through the Latvian Ethnographic Open-Air Museum Part IV. As we near the end of our journey through time, we will come upon two churches, one that was built in the first half of the 16th century in the village Vecborne, parish of Kaplava in the former district of IIukste. This church is the earliest exhibit of the museum and the only wooden church that has survived to the present from the first half of the 16th ...

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Riga's Doma Cathedral - Founded 1211, 13th-18th century architecture. The Doma Cathedral was built in the 13th century as a new residence of Bishop Albert, who wasnt any longer satisfied by his old residence in the district of Jana Seta, particularly in comparison with the luxurious Saint Peters Church built for townspeople on money of the magistracy. Since then the building has been rebuilt many times, which has left traces of practically all architectural styles dominating in Riga at ...

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Pēterbaznīcas iela (Peter's church street) runs alongside the church from Skārņu iela to Kungu iela Saint Peter's church, which is one of the best examples of Gothic architecture in the Baltic States, was first mentioned in 1209. By the 15th century, the church had been totally reconstructed and had acquired the shape we see today. The three master builders of Saint Peter's in the early fifteenth century were Hinrik Hauerbeke and the father and son Johannes and Kersten Rumeschottel from ...

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The church of Saint John can trace its foundation back to 1234, when Bishop Nicholas transferred the ownership of the bishops castle and several plots of land to the monks of the Dominican Order, who established a monastery and a church, which they named after Saint John the Baptist. The imposing West End stepped pediment was built during the reconstruction of the Church, in the early sixteenth century. After the expulsion of the Dominicans in 1523, the building was used variously as a ...

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Saint Jacob's is one of the oldest churches in Riga, and dates back to 1225. In 1522, it became the first church in Riga to hold a Lutheran service, thereby introducing the Reformation to Latvia. The first Latvian pastor was Nikolajs Rams, who was also the town's first librarian, who wrote and translated many hymns for his congregation. In 1582, during the brief Polish occupation, the King Stefan of Poland, repurchased the Church from the City and returned it to Catholic faith. In turn, the ...

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The Church of the Sorrowful Virgin, which was established in 1260, was built with funds provided by Magdalena (after who the church is named), granddaughter of the Livo chief Kaupo. It has been rebuilt several times; the building that we see today dates back to the 1760s. Next to the church is the pastor's house.

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British traders first established an Anglican church in Riga in 1822, holding their services in the Refomātu baznīca on Mārstaļu iela. The present church, which was designed by Johann Daniel Felsko and opened in 1859, is built of English red bricks on a 30 cm layer of English soil that had been specially imported from the United Kingdom. It is on the site of the former Paul's bastion, which was removed in the 1850s. During Soviet rule, the church was desecrated and transformed into a ...

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