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Liepāja Holy Trinity Lutheran Cathedral

Lielā iela 9 – Lat: N56.50997, Lon: E021.01253 Come join “TheCeļotājs” and Liepāja Tours visit to the Liepāja Holy Trinity Lutheran Cathedral “Svētais Trīsvienības luterāņu katedrāle” ANNO 1742-1758 were we will not only see its exterior but also its breath taking interior located at Liela iela 9. Liepāja Holy Trinity Lutheran Cathedral is one of the most impressive historical building in the very heart if Liepāja. It is an outstanding construction art monument of the late baroque age which has not got anything similar like that in the whole Latvia sacral architecture. The church has been the dominant of the city since 1758 and it has served for the people of Liepāja as a place of a busy Lutheran church life. In the church the decision about the serfdom abolition in Courland was first announced in 1817. Today the Liepāja Holy Trinity Lutheran Cathedral is the Latvia Evangelical Lutheran Church Liepāja Bishop’s Cathedral and the Liepāja Holy Trinity Evangelical Lutheran Church, the German Lutheran Church also works here. The foundation stone of the Liepāja Holy Trinity Lutheran Cathedral was laid on 19 July 1742 and it was devoted to the Holy Trinity. The construction plans were prepared by the mason master Johann Christoph Dorn from Kaliningrad. The pilasters, cornices, window margins and portals were chiseled from the Gotland sandstone, but the façade of the building originally was built from yellow, small sized the so called Dutch bricks typical for Liepāja,

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