The Digital Guide to Riga’s Places of Worship is a comprehensive digital project designed to document, analyze, and present the city’s religious and architectural heritage. Riga’s sacred spaces reflect centuries of historical, cultural, and social transformation, shaped by a unique confluence of Western and Eastern European influences. The project serves as both an academic resource and a public-facing platform, aiming to provide historians, architects, students, and visitors with an accessible yet deeply analytical understanding of the city’s religious landscape.
By integrating traditional humanities research methods with cutting-edge digital tools, the project creates a sustainable and scalable platform that preserves and showcases Riga’s religious sites in an interactive format. The website functions as a multi-layered resource: it combines historical narratives, architectural analysis, geospatial mapping, and visual documentation to create a holistic representation of the city’s sacred infrastructure. This combination of scholarly rigor and digital accessibility embodies the core principles of digital humanities, bridging the gap between archival research and public engagement.
The primary objective of this project is to provide a detailed, digital representation of Riga’s places of worship, capturing their historical, architectural, and social significance. The platform achieves this by: