Petäjävesi Old Church
Petäjävesi, Finland
Open to visitors
The interior is normally open, possibly ticketed.
Strollie cannot guarantee access — always check before you travel.
The Petäjävesi Old Church is a wooden church in Petäjävesi, Finland, about 1 kilometre west of the town centre. Built between 1763 and 1765, when Tavastia was still part of Sweden, it was designed by Jacob Clementsson Leppänen in the Gothic style. Its bell tower followed in 1821. UNESCO inscribed the church as a World Heritage Site in 1994 for its testimony to Nordic wooden church architecture.
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- Built
- Type
- church building, wooden church
- Materials
- wood
- Heritage
- church-protected building, protected building in the Built Heritage Register
- Place
- Petäjävesi, Finland
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