St. John's Church
Tartu City, Estonia
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St. John's Church in Tartu, Estonia, is a Brick Gothic Lutheran church dedicated to John the Baptist, begun in 1323 and rising to a height of 63 meters. Constructed in brick, the building stands as one of the city's architectural landmarks and is protected as an architectural monument. Its soaring vertical lines and characteristic Gothic forms, executed in the regional medium of brick rather than stone, exemplify the distinctive aesthetic of Baltic ecclesiastical architecture from the medieval period.
Movement
- Built
- Type
- church building
- Materials
- brick
- Heritage
- architectural monument
- Height
- 63 m
- Place
- Tartu City, Estonia
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