Tiskadi Old Believers' Church

The Tiskadi Old Believer congregation is one of the oldest in Latvia. There is an opinion that the Tiskādi settlement got its name thanks to the settlement of Russian Old Believers. The fleeing Old Believers moved here and settled down, their houses were “squeezed” (Russian - «тискались») between the farms of two previous arrivals, who before the Old Believers moved in already lived on the shores of the beautiful Tiskadi Lake. According to legend, the first house of prayer in Tiskadi was built in a wooden house in 1680. The congregation was officially registered in 1908. The new house of prayer, which had been built on this site back in 1886, was recognized by law and expanded after the 1905 regulation “On the strengthening of the principles of religious tolerance” came into force. At the beginning of 1940, the Tiskadi Old Believer congregation was the second largest in Latvia after the Grebenshchikov congregation in Riga.