Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

Three brothers and organ builders - Juhan Kriisa (27.03.1858), Jakob Kriisa (13.06.1861) and Tannil Kriisa (01.12.1866) - were born in Haanja parish in Kokemäe village in an old fashioned farm-house. The room where they came into this world was earth fl...

The church (built in 1755, rebuilt in 1870) is renowned as the ”Admiralty church” that the Russian sailors are said to have built on the wreck of a ship. The church was handed over to an Estonian congregation in the 1920s. The building, used as a gym du...

Built between the years 1890–1898 the cornerstone of this Byzantine styled church with domes was set by the Russian czar Alexander III. Some icons on the walls are older than the church its self originating from Moscow, a rare crucifix is carved b...