Construction of St. Paul’s Church began in 1885 and when its chief architect Gustav Hilbig died two years later his son Hermann picked up the reigns and completed the job. Designed in English neo-Gothic style, the impressive building is still an eye-catcher today as it occupies a green patch of land not far from the Grīziņkalns Park. Part of one of the Soviet Union’s most celebrated spy thrillers, Seventeen Moments of Spring, was also filmed here in the early 1970s.