A cluster of onion domes and a tall bell tower mark the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church on Riga’s left bank. Consecrated in 1895, it continues a much older local worship tradition and contains an intricately carved iconostasis.
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Across the Daugava from Old Riga, the Holy Trinity Orthodox Church rises on Meža iela with a tall bell tower and a cluster of onion domes. The arrangement gives the eye several heights to follow: a pyramidal roof lifts the tower above the domes around the church itself. This is a working parish church as well as an architectural landmark of Pārdaugava, the part of Riga on the river’s left bank.
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- The present church was consecrated in 1895.
- Jānis Frīdrihs Baumanis designed an earlier version of the project; Vladimir Lunsky revised it.
- The three-tier iconostasis is carved from lime wood.
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