Church of St. Paraskeva
Did ioji gatvė 2, Vilnius, Lithuania
Description:
The Church of St. Paraskeva, founded in 1864, is considered to be the first stone Christian church in Vilnius and is located at the crossroads of Piles, Dijoyi and Latako streets.
The Church of St. Paraskeva, also known as the Friday Church, is quite small. It was built in Neo-Byzantine style by architect Nikolai Chagin.
It is known mainly for the fact that it was here that Peter I served a prayer service for the victory during the Northern War over the Swedish King Charles XII.
The church is also one of the Pushkin places in the capital of Lithuania. Once Peter I baptized in it arap Hannibal, who became the great-grandfather of the great Russian poet Alexander Pushkin.