Keila Church is the biggest medieval country church in Harju County the construction of which was probably started immediately after the Northern Estonia had been subjected to the king of Denmark. There is a lack of data about the starting times of the ...
Location: Viru-Nigula alevik, Viru-Nigula vald, Lääne-Virumaa, 44001
The old Latin name for Viru-Nigula congregation was Maum which
was probably derived from the place’s ancient name Mahu. The
church’s base and arches of choir date back to the 13th century. In
1658 the army of Russian czar burned the church down...
Building this famous Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen engineered church started in 1915.
In 1931 the left wing was added but the right was never finished – the church burned
down in 1944. After Soviets arrested father Harri Haamer in 1948 the rest...