Anglikāņu baznīca

Anglican Church, also known as St. Saviour’s Church, stands in Riga as Latvia’s only Anglican congregation. Johann Felsko designed the building in neo-Gothic style, while the foundation stone dates to 1857. British bricks and a shipload of British earth shaped an unusual construction story, giving the church a physical link to Britain.

The congregation began among British traders and sailors, with a British poor fund established in 1806 and the congregation founded in 1822. Consecrated in 1859, the church later sheltered St Peter’s Lutheran parish after its neighbouring church was devastated in 1941. During the Soviet occupation, Riga Polytechnic Institute used the building as a student club, cultural centre, concert venue, exhibition space, and dance hall. Today, English-speaking worship shares the building with community work, including a soup kitchen, Senioru klubs, cultural debates, and concerts.

The international congregation welcomes everyone, and services sometimes take place in Latvian or Russian. Stained-glass windows, large-print materials, and the undercroft soup kitchen connect the building’s architecture with its continuing social role.