House of Perkunas

The House of Perkunas is a standout amongst the most unique and Gothic common structures, situated in the Old Town of Kaunas, Lithuania. Initially worked by hanseatic traders and filled in as their office from 1440 until 1532, it was sold in the sixteenth century to the Jesuits who had built up a sanctuary there in 1643. The Jesuits have additionally finished the Church of St. Francis Xavier at the Town Hall Square in 1722.

The demolished house was reconstructed in the nineteenth century and filled in as a school and theater, which was gone to by Polish-Lithuanian artist Adam Mickiewicz. Toward the finish of the nineteenth century it was renamed "Place of Perkunas", when a figure, deciphered by the sentimental students of history of that time as a symbol of the Baltic agnostic divine force of thunder and the sky Perkunas was found in one of its dividers.

Today, the place of Perkunas indeed has a place with the Jesuits and houses an exhibition hall of Adam Mickiewicz. Lithuanian history specialist, scholar and interpreter Albert Wijuk Kojalowicz was born in the house. The House of Perkunas was incorporated into the Registry of Immovable Cultural Heritage Sites of the Republic of Lithuania in 1996.