Agenskaln Baptist Church was built from 1913 to 1916. The project of the church was prepared by architect A. Vanags. According to the original plan, the church was to be executed in the forms of Neo-Romanticism. In the structure of the building was dominated by asymmetry. The facade was designed in the form of an asymmetrically arranged 3-storey tower and a 2-storey building. The tower was crowned with a pyramidal roof, and the body had an oak pediment made in the Romantic style, in the center of which there was a portal.
As a result, the built temple was somewhat different from the project of A. Vanags. The church tower was not built until 1936, it was more pointed, than in the design. On the ground floor there was a vestibule and 2 small corduroy halls, and on the second floor was the parish office. In 1933 a new organ was installed in the building organ.
During the World War II and afterwards, the Agenskalnska Baptist Church did not cease its work. The last service was held in the church in 1961, as the premises were taken away by the Soviet authorities. And in the period from 1961 to 1991. The parish met in the church of the Riga Baptist parish of Matei. The church premises were converted into a television studio. The result of this conversion was demolished tower, a new extension parallel to the parish premises.
Agenskalnska Baptist Church was the first church to be returned from the ownership of the Soviet authorities. When the church was returned to the parish, reconstruction works started according to the project of architect L. Skuj. As a result as a result of repair and reconstruction works, the parish hall became even higher than it was, In addition, special lighting fixtures were installed. The place where the altar was located the altar was decorated with tapestry. On the first floor was a small room of the parish.
The date of foundation of the Agenskalne Baptist parish is considered to be 1879, in 1884 it was officially registered. The first church of the parish was built in 1888. At that time it was located on Templa Street 2. In 1916, a Baptist church was built. And in 1939, a boarding house for the elderly was built next to the Agenskalns Baptist Church. The architect of this project was A. Schmeling. The boarding house was called "Zakat."
The church was returned to the parish only in 1989, and a few years later they returned the boarding house. In 1993, the first Christian school in Riga started its work in the boarding house. Today the building of the boarding house houses the Bible Institute.
