The church in Gowarten was built in 1922, to the great joy of the local parish. It was a modest hall church with a small turret serving as a bell tower. Plain inside. The organ was acquired from the teachers’ seminary in Ragnit.
The modest Gowarten church survived the Second World War in excellent condition. But the settlers did not use it as a church.
By 1965 the turret had been dismantled, the roof re-covered with slate, and the pointed-arch windows partly bricked up and made rectangular. The window in the annexe was enlarged and an entrance made, and a shop moved in there. A club was set up in the hall. On the south side was the entrance to the library. Today nothing recalls that this was once a church. The memorial that stood in front of the church has been demolished.
Photos on this page: Bildarchiv Ostpreußen, bildarchiv-ostpreussen.de
Translated from Russian with the help of AI (Claude, Anthropic), October 2026.
