Location: Kiriku 14, Kallaste linn, Tartumaa, 60103
The czar’s repressions towards the Old Believers closed the Kallaste village humble
prayer house down. But only the very house. In the year of 1848 the bishop of Riga
had to inform the imperial clerks as follows: „After the prayer houses in Kallas...
Location: Kasepää alevik, Peipsiääre vald, Tartumaa, 60302
Despite the persecution – even parents who wished to raise their
children by the Old Believers’ traditions were dragged to court –
the Old Believers’ chapel in the village of Kasepää just at the Lake
Peipsi has been continually in use since the...
Location: Piiri küla, Piirissaare vald, Tartumaa, 62601
Built in 1802 it is the one Old Believers’ church in Piirissaare that
has survived. The other one got destroyed during the German
occupation. Many old believers’ themselves were deported by the
Germans. It is still a tradition that the fisherme...
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