Kukita Old Believers Prayer House of the Estonian Association of Old Believers Congregations
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The first prayer house of Old Believers in Estonia is located in Kukita. The Kukita Prayer House was consecrated on September 14, 1740. During the war of 1812, the Cossack Old Believers donated a chandelier to the Prayer House. There were a total of 397 Old Believers in the list of parishioners of the Kukita congregation by 1833. The current Prayer House was built in 1948 in place of the one destroyed in World War II.Old Believers have services every Sunday and on all holidays (Christmas, Pascha and Epiphany).