God’s Garden is an ancient place on the bank of the River Iecava, which offers a picturesque view of the River Iecava and the Lutheran church. It is considered to be the burial place of the Napoleonic army officers who fell in the battles near Iecava during the war of 1812, but along with it, the legend of the first church of Iecava and the story of the Semigallian sacred place and the hollow stone have also been preserved. The name of the place is also often explained by the fact that it was an ancient place of worship. The tale says that there was a plan to build the first church in Iecava in this place, but the logs were brought to the other side of the river, where the church is now. This happened several times, until the Holy Fathers declared that this was a place possessed by the devil, where the church could not be built. So the church was built in another place, where, after several reconstructions, it still serves the local congregation. People tell the story about a sacrificial stone that supposedly stood in God’s garden until the First World War, but then disappeared. It is difficult to find out nowadays whether it was a stone of the Semigallian cult, or a memorial stone for some soldiers who died in the war or for victims of the plague
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