Church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God in Dzintari (Jūrmala)

By the end of the 19th century the Riga seaside was widely known, the number of permanent residents was growing year by year, and among them - as among the holidaymakers - there were many Orthodox believers. But there was no church nearby.The Riga Peter and Paul Brotherhood took the initiative: at its council on 22 September 1889 it resolved to build a new church on donations. A. P. Kizelbašs, architect of the Riga school district, drew up the general design, the working drawings and the estimate free of charge, and he also took on the supervision of the building work. On Sunday, 23 June 1896, the completed Edinburg church was consecrated in honour of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God.The church stood until 1962. In 1962 a decree closing the Cathedral of the Nativity of Christ in Riga and other Orthodox churches in Latvia arose in the Council of Ministers of the Latvian SSR; that fate reached the Edinburg church too. Having come through the revolution of 1917, two world wars and repeated changes of power, it was wiped from the face of the earth by bulldozers in a single day, in peacetime. All the church's property was moved to the Vladimir church in Dubulti.In 2010 the financial group BBG AS, parent company of Baltikums Bank, took the decision to donate to the Latvian Orthodox Church its share in the company Baltikums Nams, which owned a plot in Jūrmala on Turaidas iela, and so contributed to the recreation on that site of an Orthodox church of the Kazan Icon of the Mother of God. On 28 July 2013 the foundation stone of the Dzintari church was laid. The church stands and services are held in it; as of 2021 the building work was not yet finished.<h3>Where it is</h3>Jūrmala, Dzintari, Turaidas iela.