The house of perkūnas is located in Kaunas. It was built in the XV century. Is an example of late Gothic architecture, which is called "flaming". This style is characterized by richness, abundance of detail and perfect lines. The house is built of red brick and looks very powerful and even more squat building that you can not only see, but also to go inside, which in itself is able to impress every lover of antiquity.

The house of perkūnas is also called "medieval relic". They are particularly interested in the XIX century, when his wall was discovered (and later lost) bronze statue of the pagan God Perkūnas or Perkunas. In Baltic mythology, the so-called God-Thunderer. It was announced that this building was the pagan temple of this God. This beautiful version was so strong that the name of Perkunas house is called to this day. Besides, the famous building is stably associated with the pagan religion of the Duchy of Lithuania and was even called "the sanctuary of God the Thunderer", forgetting the fact that the Gentiles were never built in the style of flaming Gothic and importantly, in the fourteenth century Lithuania was baptized.

Originally the house consisted of two parallel buildings that have a common main wall. One of the buildings used for storage. It was destroyed in the eighteenth century. By assumption the researchers, the existing two-storey Gothic house with a basement was built as office-warehouse merchants of the Hanseatic League. Its layout is typical of a public building (the kitchen was absent). Preserved main building has a rectangular in plan form. Its both floors are divided into three parts by two main walls. Representative areas were located on the second floor.

The house was reconstructed some times, especially in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, but the main, gable facade has remained in the Gothic style. It is characterized extraordinary originality and splendour of the composition, which consists of two main parts. This is performed asymmetrically wall with glazed Bay window (ledge in the wall) and niches and symmetrical gable. They are separated by wide scenic frieze with additional mesh ornament, made of shaped bricks. The pediment is decorated in a spatial-relief style and consists of five verticals, ending in decorative turrets (the pinnacles) and associated with the plane of the pediment. Outdoor Bay window highlights the average vertical. The plane between the vertical posts filled embossed arches, interlocking irregular, small niches and Windows. The decoration of the pediment consists of sixteen different types of bricks complex profile. On a steep roof is lined with antique floor tiles. On the North wall you can see traces once stood here at home of the same size and silhouette. They were discovered by an archaeologist To.Makasa, who carried out the research building. In 1965 - 1968, the house was restored and partially reconstructed. The author of the restoration project was made by architect D.Saracene.

After the restoration of independence, the house of perkūnas was returned to the Jesuits in possession of the building was after the First world war. Now the house belongs to Kaunas Jesuit gymnasium. Here is an exhibition which tells about the life and career of the great poet-novelist, one of the main symbols of Lithuanian culture Adam Mickiewicz living a few years in Kaunas (formerly Kovno). Also there is a hall for concerts and exhibitions, theatrical excursions are organized.

Due to the uniqueness of its composition, the house of perkūnas is one of the most valuable Gothic architectural monuments of Lithuania.