Teika, Riga

Last updated May 29, 2025

This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . (Learn how and when to remove these messages)

This article needs additional citations for verification . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.
Find sources: "Teika, Riga" – news · newspapers · books · scholar · JSTOR (January 2021) ( Learn how and when to remove this message )

You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Latvian. (March 2011)Click [show] for important translation instructions.

View a machine-translated version of the Latvian article.
Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Latvian Wikipedia article at [[:lv:Teika (Rīga)]]; see its history for attribution.
You may also add the template {{Translated|lv|Teika (Rīga)}} to the talk page.
For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

( Learn how and when to remove this message )

Teika
Neighborhood of Riga
The former Teika Cinema built in the 1930s
Location in Riga
Country	Latvia
City	Riga
District	Vidzeme Suburb
Area
• Total	4.682 km² (1.808 sq mi)
Population (2024)
• Total	28,428
• Density	6,100/km² (16,000/sq mi)
Time zone	UTC+2 (EET)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+3 (EEST)
Website	apkaimes.lv

Teika is a neighbourhood in the Vidzeme Suburb of Riga, the capital of Latvia.

Teika is the only neighbourhood in Riga which was planned and partly built in the 1920s and 1930s during interwar Latvia. Built up areas consists mainly from 1- to 2-storey family houses, but there are also 5-storey apartment houses, especially around Brīvības street and Zemitāns Square. Teika was planned as a very modern district for those times and today is known for its Functionalist architecture which was widely practiced there.^[1]

Gallery

Monument to Jorģis Zemitāns in Zemitāns Square
Piebalgas street in Teika
Functionalist residential house on Āraišu street.
Functionalist mansion on Lielvārdes street.
Modern residential and office building complex Jaunā Teika (New Teika).

References

↑ Krastiņš, Jānis (1 July 2006). "Architecture and Urban Development of Art Nouveau—Metropolis Riga" . International Review of Sociology. 16 (2): 395–425. doi:10.1080/03906700600709327. S2CID 146754212 . Retrieved 30 October 2020.

v t e Neighbourhoods of Riga
Kurzeme District	Bolderāja Buļļi Daugavgrīva Dzirciems Iļģuciems Imanta Kleisti Ķīpsala Spilve Voleri Zasulauks
Zemgale Suburb	Āgenskalns ¹ Atgāzene Beberbeķi Bieriņi Bišumuiža Katlakalns Mūkupurvs Pleskodāle Salas ² Šampēteris Torņakalns Ziepniekkalns Zolitūde
Northern District	Čiekurkalns ³ Jaunciems Kundziņsala Mangaļsala Mežaparks Mīlgrāvis Pētersala-Andrejsala Sarkandaugava Trīsciems Vecāķi Vecdaugava Vecmīlgrāvis
Vidzeme Suburb	Berģi Brasa Brekši Bukulti Dreiliņi Jugla Mežciems Purvciems Skanste ⁴ Suži ⁴ Teika
Central District	Centrs ⁵ Vecrīga
Latgale Suburb	Avoti Dārzciems Dārziņi Grīziņkalns ⁶ Ķengarags Latgale neighbourhood Pļavnieki Rumbula Šķirotava
¹ partially in the Kurzeme District ² partially in the Latgale Suburb ³ partially in the Vidzeme Suburb ⁴ partially in the Northern District ⁵ partially in the Northern District, in the Vidzeme Suburb, and in the Latgale Suburb ⁶ partially in the Central District

56°58′12″N24°10′48″E / 56.9700°N 24.1800°E / 56.9700; 24.1800

This Riga location article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

This page is based on this Wikipedia article
Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license; additional terms may apply.
Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.