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This was intended as the site of a cathedral, never needed for that, so it opened as a cemetery in 1914. The First World War rapidly filled its plots but it's still in use, a bosky resting place for the city's great and good. One monument commemorates Jurgis Tilvytis (1880-1931) the poet, scholar and rector of the cathedral, who was giving a funeral sermon here for a deceased monk when he upped and died himself.
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Evangelikų liuteronų bažnyčia
This was completed in 1885 but looks older, a traditional Gothic wooden church in light paint.
Kristaus Karaliaus katedra
Planned from 1860 but with construction delayed by war and hostile authorities, this Roman Catholic cathedral was eventually consecrated in 1933. The style is a mix of Baroque and Neoclassical.
Švč Trejybės bažnyčia
This Roman Catholic church was built in 1803 by the Piarists, more snappily known as Ordo Clericorum Regularium pauperum Matris Dei Scholarum Piarum. This Order is dedicated to children's education, and needed a stone church, monastery and school when their old wooden facilities burned down. It was bashed in wartime and trashed by the Soviets, but re-consecrated in 1989.
Miesto dailės galerija
Galleries of modern art and ceramics, with some outside exhibits plus photography at the annex at Vasario 16th g 11.
Šv apaštalų Petro ir Povilo bažnyčia
Roman Catholic church completed in 1885, in Neo-Renaissance red brick.
Larger wooded park east of the river loop.