Šeduva
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Place details
- Locality
- Šeduva
- Region
- Šiaulių apskritis
- Country
- Lietuva
- Population
- 3,321
- Timezone
- Europe/Vilnius
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Key facts
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- Šeduva
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- Town
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- Lithuania
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- Location of Šeduva
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- Country
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- Ethnographic region
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- Aukštaitija
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- city
- Official name
- Šeduva
- Country
- Lithuania
- Population
- +4537
- Elevation
- +87
- Time zone
- Eastern European Time
- Image
- Šeduva church - panoramio (1).jpg
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- Category:Šeduva
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- The Lost Shtetl Museum
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Šeduva () is a town in the Radviliškis district municipality, Lithuania. It is located east of Radviliškis.
==History== Šeduva was an agricultural town dealing in cereals, flax and linseed, pigs and geese and horses, at the site of a royal estate and beside a road from Kaunas to Riga. The population from the fifteenth century was Catholic and Jewish. Until then, Lithuania had been the last pagan kingdom in Europe and allowed freedom of worship and toleration of Jews and other religions. The first Catholic shrine of Šeduva, the Church of the Invention of the Holy Cross, was built and the parish founded between 1512 and 1529. The present brick church Cross was built in Šeduva in 1643 with a donation from bishop Jerzy Tyszkiewicz of Vilnius. During the 18th century, the bell tower was added to the structure, with further renovations and extensions in 1905. Baroque and Renaissance architectural styles characterise both the exterior and interior of the church. It has a cruciform plan with an apse, a low sacristy and five altars.