Orthodox activity was there already during the very beginning of
the Christianisation of Estonians. In the 19th century many choose
it in the hope of getting aworded for being in the right religion,
the czar’s religion. Overcrowdedness is the r...
The church was first built in the 13th century. The medieval Cistercian St Michael´s Abbey was rebuilt as the Transfiguration church in 1732. A valuable Baroque iconostasis dates back to 1720, the grave monument of the holy martyr Bishop St Platon was c...
It was meant to become the last resting place for von Ungern-Sternbergs but the
groundwater turned out being too high. Having no rectory or cemetery it was just a
simple church nicely by the road. In the summer of 1939 the Soviet army found a new ...