Religions the people served

You are advised to start the genealogical investigations with the religion of your ancestors, because it allows you to decide where to search for official as well as for non-official documents. For this reason on this Site some information on religious confessions is gathered for the reference time period beginning of 1800. The information about the appropriate priests should also be presented here.

Statistics of religions in Latvia	Statistics of Latvia population by their religion. Religion statistics for people of various ethnicities is also available.
Conversion	The information about the rules of religious conversion and the practice in the Russia Empire

Lutherans
Catholics
Greek Orthodox
Judaism	No special discussion of the religion is needed compared with the ethnicity, because for Jews in the standard case the ethnicity and religion coincide or at least coincided. You may connect to the Chapter on Jewish ethnicity.
Old-believers
Reformats	I have practically no information about the activities of this Church in Latvia
Baptists
Adventists
Methodists

Information about some confessions that were not numerous or did not exist in Latvia before the WW2.

Islam
Salvation Army	This organization was active between the both World Wars in Latvia, though it was not numerous. Unfortunately, I have practically no information about it.
Brethren	A short overview will be available here later.
LDS (Mormons)	Some information about this Church, its activities in gathering of the genealogy related information and what perspectives these activities have in modern Latvia.
Mennonites	Short information about the religion and the description of a postcard that proves the existence of Mennonism in Latvia.
Skopcy	Some information about this sect that existed in the region of Latvia, though was not numerous.