# St. James's Cathedral

> This file is a plain-text rendition of a page on mytuur.com, generated from the same data as the HTML version.

Canonical page: https://mytuur.com/en/city/riga/spot/sveta-jekaba-katedrale/

Content updated: 2026-06-22

This page is about one place: St. James's Cathedral, a spot in Riga with a story of its own. The story itself lives in the myTuur app, and it begins when you arrive and the app knows you are standing there.

- City: [Riga](https://mytuur.com/en/city/riga/)

## Photos

- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StJamessCathedral_68750bc7622f9d68e0bc05a3_0.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Latvia_Riga_St.Jacob_church.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StJamessCathedral_68750bc7622f9d68e0bc05a3_1.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Church_entrance_anno_1225_(8532887682).jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StJamessCathedral_68750bc7622f9d68e0bc05a3_2.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vecrīga,_Central_District,_Riga,_LV-1050,_Latvia_-_panoramio_(227).jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StJamessCathedral_68750bc7622f9d68e0bc05a3_3.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Cathedral_of_Saint_James_Interior_1,_Riga,_Latvia_-_Diliff.jpg)
- ![](https://mytuur-bucket.s3.amazonaws.com/image_StJamessCathedral_68750bc7622f9d68e0bc05a3_4.jpg) — [Image: wikimedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Vistas_desde_la_iglesia_de_San_Pedro,_Riga,_Letonia,_2012-08-07,_DD_21.JPG)

Spots like this one are the stops myTuur strings into tours through Riga. In the app, each story begins where you stand: walk up to a spot and it starts, read it on screen or listen as you go, then follow the route to the next one.

## What is myTuur?

myTuur is a free city-guide app. Its tours are built from spots, and each spot carries a story that starts when you get there, to read or to listen to as you like.