Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

The exact birth of Ilmjärve congregation was on the 4th of April 1846, when the first Lutheran turned Orthodox and had the salving. 3152 Lutherans took the same steps the same year. The first wooden building with five towers was erected two yea...

It is the first classical church building (built in 1827, architect Luigi Rusca) in Tallinn, preceded by a church for Orthodox merchants in the same place already in the Middle Ages. Because of its long history, the church has the unique and oldest Esto...

The Estonian Orthodox congregation of Tartu joined together in 1845. Building the church was the priest’s main worry and it was inaugurated on September 2 in1870 in honour of St. George, Jüri in Estonian. Patriarch of Moscow and all the Rus...