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Darte Lutheran Church.

The church built of boulders in 1895. In the wall immured a boulder with the number 1600 - that is the year of the building of the first church in that place. Into church is a rather old organ (1899) and an altarpiece from 19 th century. Besides I very like this building style, when into still wet stucco press in little stones - very simply but very beautiful. The beauty to years by minimal resources. This building style is used in all Latvia territory - for country churches, estates, and manors a.o. I did not know - is this style known and used somewhere else?

Darte Church is the church of my childhoods places, therefore - my favourite. And that church includes all things why I love Lutheran churches - asceticism: simplicity and solemnity, nothing superfluous. No plaster laces or showy gilding. Nothing excesses. Only all necessary - Room, Peace, Belief. Nothing what could divert from the Lord.