Editing St. Peter's Church, Riga (section)

===First reconstruction===
The newly renovated church served for a mere 29 years, for lightning struck and set fire to the tower and church 10 May 1721. Only the church and tower walls remained standing after the fire. Reconstruction of the church began immediately under the direction of the master carpenter [[Tom Bochum]] and master mason [[Kristofer Meinert]]. By 1723 the building already had a temporary roof. [[Johann Heinrich Wilbern]] took over supervision of the project in 1740, and under his direction a new {{convert|120.7|m}} steeple was built in 1746. The steeple was covered with copper-plate and the rooster was [[Gilding|gilded]] in 1746–47.
[[Christoph Haberland]] designed a new marble [[pulpit]] for the church, which was built in [[Italy]] in 1793. In 1794 Haberland renovated the wooden vaulted ceilings in the central sections of the nave. The interior walls were plastered and the lower sections of the pillars were covered with oak panels in 1885 under the direction of architect [[Reinhold Schmaeling|Reinhold Georg Schmaeling]] (''1840–1917'').