Lukošiškės Holy Mother of God Intercessor Old Believers Church is an Old Believers prayer house in Lukošiškės, Tverečius eldership, Ignalina district.
The church is located 0.6 km northeast of road 112 Ignalina–Didžiasalis.
The local religious community itself maintains and manages this sacred object. At the initiative of this community, in 2013, the church was included in the Register of Cultural Values of the Republic of Lithuania (unique code 37169) as having sacred, architectural, and ethnocultural valuable properties. This sacred object is valuable for both external and internal architectural details: the facades of the church are horizontally sheathed with wooden boards, the double doors are sheathed with a decorative layer of „herringbone“ on the outside, the wooden window structures are protected, and inside the building there is a wooden painted altar cross, wooden plank floors. The local significance level has been approved for this cultural heritage object.
The Lukošiškė Old Believers Parish was founded at the beginning of the 20th century. In 1912, a prayer house of the Old Believers religious community (Lithuanian Old Orthodox Pomeranian Church) was built in the village of Lukošiškė. According to other sources (testimony of the residents of this village), the prayer house was built in 1901. After the First World War, this territory belonged to Poland.
In 1948, the Soviet government nationalized houses of worship of all faiths, as well as other church buildings and religious paraphernalia. In 1949, the Lukošiškė parish was registered and a long-term lease agreement was concluded with it for the use of the house of worship for religious ceremonies.
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Information updated 2025-12-15
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