Rietumu Bank's charity fund launches a fourth project competition “Latvian Scriptural Heritage”

The Western Bank's charity fund, in cooperation with the National Inspectorate for Cultural Monuments, has been launching a project competition “Latvian Scrual Heritage” for the fourth year, which aims to promote the preservation and restoration of Latvian national architecture and art monuments. In the course of the competition, funding will be given to projects whose expected result will contribute to the preservation and restoration of cultural and historical monuments of different confessions.
As from the beginning of the foundation, the support of the Western Bank charity fund (RBLF) is one of the priorities of the activities of the Latvian religious community. Since the foundation of the foundation, many projects have been carried out which focused on the preservation of the cultural monuments of Latvia.
With time, the Western Bank charitable foundation received more and more project applications for church renewal or emergency repairs, so the decision was taken in 2012 to organise a competition that would combine all collapsed projects into a single programme. The project competition “Latvian Secondary Heritage” gives the representatives of all confessions equal and equal opportunities to restore important cultural historical objects, which are important in terms of both the maintenance of mental culture and the preservation of architectural monuments.
The submitted projects will be assessed by the jury, which will also be composed of representatives of the National Inspection for Heritage Protection (VKPAI), who have helped to identify priority areas of support for all these years with their experience and advice.
“Restoration and preservation of the cultural heritage of Latvia is a very important direction for the operation of the fund. In previous years, we saw a great deal of confidence in the various confessions and threats that encourage us to reorganise the competition. Thanks to this programme, a number of important historical heritage sites of the previous centuries have already been restored, which we can now know in their original, authentic form. We will continue this work because there is always a need to make special efforts to preserve historical buildings and artifacts, the situation of which is inevitably affected by time and human behaviour, as the Chairman of the Management Board of the Western Bank's charity fund, Inga šina, recognises.
Over the last year, more than 100 applications were evaluated in the framework of the project, both for the various works of restoration of church buildings, towers and domes, as well as for the preservation of individual unique interior objects. In 2014, the Western Bank charitable foundation supported 9 different confession churches from all regions of Latvia. For example, the restoration of Alsunga Catholic Church organs, stubble Sv. The renovation of Nicholas Orthodox Church of the Orthodox Church, the restoration of the altar painting in the Gospel Lutheric Church of Limbazi, etc.
According to this year by-laws of the tender an application for aid may be received by any religious organisation or association registered in Latvia, in whose ownership or possession the cultural monuments of the State or local significance are located. The total amount of financing is EUR 24 000 that year, one for a project up to EUR 4500. Applications must be submitted from 20 March to 19 April, filling in the form of the application.
Projects approved in the competition for which funding will be allocated will be published on THE RBLF website www.rblf.lv.