Towns and sacred heritage in Lithuania — page 3

Kaunas County Municipality Palace at Vytauto pr. 91 is one of the largest administrative buildings of interwar Lithuania, designed by Vytautas…

The Holy Trinity church on Muitinės Street grew from Kaunas's 16th-century Lutheran community and was built in 1683.

Kaunas Evangelical Reformed Church at E. Ožeškienės g. 41 is a rare example of interwar modernist sacred architecture.

Kaunas Holy Cross Church near the Nemunas is a single-nave mature Baroque church built in 1685-1700; a late nineteenth-century reconstruction completed its…

Kaunas Holy Spirit (Šilainiai I) Church is a long, light modern parish space on Milikonių Street.

Kaunas Ninth Fort is part of Kaunas Fortress, later turned into a prison, NKVD transfer point, and Nazi mass-murder site.

Kaunas Small Church of the Resurrection is a separate small red-brick building in Žaliakalnis and should not be confused with the large Resurrection Basilica.

Kaunas Sports Hall at Perkuno al. 5 is the first arena in Europe designed specifically for basketball, built in 1939.

Kaunas State Philharmonic occupies the former Ministry of Justice and Seimas Palace of the Republic of Lithuania, one of the most prestigious interwar…

Kaunas Tatar Mosque is a masonry mosque at Totoriu g. 6 in Ramybes Park, built in 1930-1932 as a Vytautas the Great jubilee-period monument to Lithuania's Tatar…

Kaunas Town Hall, known as the White Swan, is the axis of Town Hall Square and one of old Kaunas' main self-government buildings, begun in masonry in the…

Kavarskas St John the Baptist Church is a 19th-century historicist brick pseudo-basilica at Šaltinio g. 14 in Kavarskas.

Kavarskas St. John Spring by the Šventoji is a tufa spring and old sacred site, protected as a hydrogeological natural-heritage object and shown in the town…

Kazitiškis Church of St Stanislaus the Bishop is a neo-Gothic masonry sanctuary built in 1906-1908, with twin towers, a lower apse, and three naves.

Kazokiškės Church of Our Lady Victorious is a small sacred site whose ensemble records several distinct periods.

Kėdainiai Evangelical Reformed Church is one of Lithuania's oldest and largest Protestant churches.

St George's Church, standing on a hill on the east bank of the Nevėžis, is regarded as the oldest surviving masonry building in Kėdainiai.

Kėdainiai St Joseph's Church is a two-towered late Baroque wooden church built by the Carmelites in 1766 on masonry foundations.

Kelmė Church of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a red-brick Gothic Revival church with three aisles, one tall facade tower, and a small turret at…

Kelmė Evangelical Reformed Church is a state-protected white masonry church with a tall clock tower, single-nave interior, cross vaults and a heraldic panel…

Kernavė Church of Our Lady of the Scapular is a red ceramic-brick Neo-Gothic sanctuary built in 1910-1920.

Keturnaujiena Divine Mercy Chapel stands in the fields of Suodžiai on a surviving Soviet-era agricultural airstrip.

Keturvalakiai Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary is a living parish church at 45 Liepų Street in Keturvalakiai, 12 km west of Marijampolė.

Kietaviškės Church of the Holy Trinity stands on Bažnyčios Street in Naujosios Kietaviškės.

Kintai Evangelical Lutheran Church is one of the oldest Pamarys sanctuaries by the Curonian Lagoon, built in 1705 from the materials of the vanished Ventė…

At North Horn beside the Old Ferry, Romualdas Kvintas's bronze girl rises onto her toes and holds the instant of a kiss.

Klaipėda Church of St Joseph the Worker is a monumental white landmark in the south of the city, recognisable by its two tapering towers, broad steps, and…

Klaipėda Evangelical Baptist Church at 38 Vytauto Street was built in 1851 for a congregation founded in 1841.

Klaipėda Lighthouse was first lit on 1 September 1796 and is Lithuania's oldest lighthouse.

Klaipėda Mary Queen of Peace Church is one of the few Lithuanian churches built during the Soviet period: constructed in 1957-1960, confiscated and turned into…

Klaipėda New Apostolic Church on Taikos Avenue is an active Christian sanctuary and a meeting place for congregations from western Lithuania.

Klaipėda's Church of the Dormition of the Mother of God and St Michael the Archangel was built in 2010-2015 and consecrated in 2016.

Klaipėda Old Town is Lithuania's distinctive port-city core: its plan is tied to medieval Memel, the Danė River, the castle, trading quays, and half-timbered…

Klovainiai Church of the Holy Trinity is a long wooden sanctuary on Pušaloto Street, marked by a tall four-tier square tower with an octagonal upper section.

Krakes Church of St Matthew the Apostle and Evangelist at 1 Betygalos Street is a historic church beside the Smilgaitis.

Kražiai on the Kražantė is one of historic Samogitia's key small towns: a famous Jesuit college worked here from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries, the…

The Church of the Immaculate Conception in Kražiai was built for the Benedictine convent in 1757-1763.

Krekenava Basilica is one of the most important Marian shrines in the Panevėžys region: a two-towered brick church built in 1902, with Neo-Gothic features, a…

Kretinga Evangelical Lutheran Church is a Gothic Revival church of exposed stone and red brick built beside Rotušės Square in 1897-1899.

Kretinga Franciscan Monastery with the Church of the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary is one of Samogitia's oldest sacred ensembles, founded by Grand…

Kretinga Lourdes is a 7-by-7-metre fieldstone grotto set into a valley slope by the Franciscans in 1933, with statues of Mary and St Bernadette cast in France.

Krikštonys Church of Christ the King is an unusual white wooden Neo-Gothic church in Lazdijai District.

Jurbarkas Evangelical Lutheran Church is not a reconstruction of the nineteenth-century wooden sanctuary.

Krosna Church of St Matthew the Apostle is an 1842 church in the centre of Krosna, recognisable by its pink facade, white architectural details, two towers and…

Kruonis Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Queen of Angels is a historic single-nave Latin-cross sanctuary with a tall square tower and a rounded rear dome.

Kryžiai Chapel of Our Lady, Queen of the Rosary is a striking white pilgrimage shrine on the south-western shore of Lake Dusia.

Kuliai Church of St Bishop Stanislaus is a white eclectic church built in 1900, with a high tower, churchyard fence and historic rectory ensemble.

Kūlupėnai Church of St Matthew is an active parish church on Mokyklos Street.

Kupiškis Church of the Ascension of Christ is a red-brick Gothic Revival church built in 1900-1914, whose twin 60 m towers dominate the town skyline.

Kurtuvėnai Church of St James the Apostle is one of Žemaitija's most distinctive Late Baroque and early Classicist sanctuaries.

The Kvintiškės reported Marian apparition site is a chapel-and-crosses complex on the western shore of Lake Ilgis in Kamša.

Kybartai Church of the Eucharistic Saviour is a white three-aisled basilica built in 1927-1928 to a design by Vytautas Landsbergis-Žemkalnis, with an…

Labanoras Church of the Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary and its surviving wooden belfry form one independent sacred-heritage attraction on Bažnyčios Street.

The Labour Palace in Kaunas, now the Kaunas Cultural Centre, is an interwar workers' culture and self-education centre formed in 1938-1940.

The Land Bank Palace in Kaunas is a 1933-1935 bank building by Karolis Reisonas near Vienybės Square, now used as the KTU central building.

Leliūnai St Joseph's Church is an active red-brick parish church in Utena District, built in 1901-1905.

Linkmenys Holy Trinity Church is a late-nineteenth-century stone-and-red-brick church at 10 Bažnyčios Street.

Linkuva Church of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and the former Carmelite monastery form one of the largest surviving monastery ensembles in the region.

The Church of Sts Simon and Jude Thaddeus in Lioliai was built in 1768 and is one of the most valuable surviving wooden Baroque churches in Samogitia.

Liškiava Monastery Ensemble is one of Dzūkija's strongest sacred-heritage sites: the late Baroque Holy Trinity Church, former Dominican monastery, crypts,…

Liudvinavas St Louis Church stands at 15 Birutės Street, about 9 km south of Marijampolė.

Lukiškės Square is a 3.5-hectare public space in central Vilnius that serves simultaneously as a national ceremonial ground, an everyday green park, and a place…

Lygumai Holy Trinity Church seems disproportionately grand for a small northern Lithuanian town.

The M.S.C. Memelland and Antanas Poška Monument in Klaipėda joins two strands of Lithuanian motorcycling history in one composition.

Marijampolė's minor basilica of St Michael the Archangel is the city's main shrine, linked with the Marian Fathers, whose settlement gave the city its name.

Kauno Street is one of the clearest surviving fragments of old central Jonava.

Kėdainiai Great Market is the historic town's principal commercial square, laid out in the late sixteenth century on a site where archaeologists also found…

The Kėdainiai Minaret is a rare Ottoman-style brick tower in the former manor park, built around 1880 by General Eduard Totleben to commemorate the…

Old Market Square is Kėdainiai's earliest market space and the heart of its former Jewish quarter.

Kėdainiai Old Town is one of Lithuania's most distinctive historic urban centres.

Kėdainiai Šviesioji Gymnasium continues the tradition of the Reformed parish school founded by Krzysztof II Radziwiłł in 1625.

Kėdainiai Town Hall is one of Lithuania's three surviving historic town halls and the only one primarily identified with Renaissance architecture.

Kelmė Water Mill is a three-storey red-brick industrial-heritage building dated to 1892, protected together with its reservoir, dam, intake, and channel system…

King Mindaugas Bridge is a steel-arch road bridge opened across the Neris in 2003, linking Vilnius's historic centre at Arsenalo Street with the Žvejų and…

The Kintai Smagurinė guide rests on two different kinds of evidence.

Klaipėda Central Post Office on Liepų Street is one of Lithuania's finest neo-Gothic buildings: a red-brick post-office complex built in 1893, with the…

Klaipėda Cruise Ship Terminal is a quay area opened in 2003 between the castle site and the Curonian Lagoon, where large liners become part of the city skyline.

The Klaipėda Gasworks Complex on Liepų Street is the city's gasworks, built in 1860-1861 as the first large industrial building after the 1854 fire.

Klaipėda Narrow-Gauge Railway Station is a three-part complex built in 1904-1907 beside the city's present railway station.

Opened in 2018, Klaipėda Swimming Pool is a 7,400-square-metre public sports and wellness centre.

Klaipėda Swing Bridge is an 1855 hand-operated, riveted-iron pedestrian bridge across the entrance to Castle Harbour.

Klaipėda Town Hall began as a merchant's house built in the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century.

Klaipėda University Campus occupies a former barracks complex built in 1904-1907 on H. Manto Street and known, from the colour of its brick, as the Red…

Knypava Market Square was laid out in the early seventeenth century and is associated with German merchants from Königsberg's Kneiphof district.

Kristijonas Donelaitis Square in Klaipėda's New Town began to take shape in the first half of the nineteenth century as a public space framed by linden trees.

Kuršėnai Pedestrian Bridge is more than the shortest route across the Venta.

Kybartai Railway Pedestrian Overpass is a town connection built in 1996 above the sprawling yard of this border railway station.

Kybartai Underground Cellars are not an unexplained tunnel network beneath the whole town.

Laisvės Alėja is the 1,621-metre historic axis of Kaunas New Town, but not every metre has the same pedestrian status.

Lankupiai Lock is part of the King Wilhelm Canal building complex and the only lock in Lithuania declared a technical monument.

Lankupiai Suspension Bridge is a 130 m metal pedestrian bridge across the Minija, connecting the Klaipėda and Šilutė district sides.

Laser Arena on Ateities Street is an indoor infrared laser-tag venue with a dark maze, lights, sound, haze, music, and automatic scorekeeping vests.

Laurynas Gucevičius Square is Kupiškis's central public space between S. Darius and S. Girėnas Street and Gediminas Street, developed from the town's historic…

Laurynas Ivinskis Square and its monument form one public destination in central Kuršėnai.

Light Tower.

Louis Armstrong Square in Vilkija is a riverside jazz-memory and event space with a curved white stage, a light tensile canopy and thirteen music players.

Meilės alėja, or Love Avenue, is an approximately 1.45-kilometre tree-lined promenade running parallel to the Baltic coast from J. Basanavičius Street to the…

Lyduvėnai Railway Bridge over the Dubysa is Lithuania's highest and longest bridge: a 599 m long, about 42 m high, nine-span railway structure whose history…

M. K. Čiurlionio Bridge is the Nemunas crossing opened in 2002 that links central Kaunas with Freda and Aleksotas.

The Margutis (Egg) Sculpture stands at 43 Pylimo Street, where Šv. Stepono, Pylimo, and Raugyklos streets meet.