Aizpute Baptist Church

Kuldīgas ielā 17, Aizpute

+371 26336783

Aizpute Baptist Church was founded in 1869. the first pastor, later also the bishop of Latvian Baptist churches - Ādams Gertner, who was kept in prison several times in Aizpute and also in Kuldīga.

The first church was built in 1884. However, after 8 years in 1892, under the pretext that the Baptist church is too close to the Orthodox church, the tsar's administration ordered the church to be demolished. In 1893, the congregation decides to buy a plot of land at 17 Kuldīgas Street for 750 rubles. And in the same year, the second temple is built. The congregation functioned in this building until March 21, 1937, when it perished in a fire on the evening of Palm Sunday. It is decided to collect funds for the construction of a new church. The congregation is building its third one in 11 months, according to the design of the Belarusian architect Alexander Schmeling. It was consecrated at Christmas 1939. The church did not stop its activities either during the 1st or 2nd World Wars. From 1949 to 1990, the Aizpute Seventh-day Adventist congregation, which had been deprived of its meeting rooms by the Soviets, also held its services in the parish church.

Composer Pēteris Vasks was born and spent his childhood in this house, in the family of Baptist church pastor Arvīdas Vaskas.