When pastors of Pühalepa complained about the peasants still having pagan idol
worships they intriguingly mentioned the peasants met not in a sacrificial forest or in
some other ungodly place but in this chapel. Practical Estonians did not want th...
Kihnu church built in 1784 is one of the few Orthodox churches, which is adapted from Lutheran sacral buildings. Between 1846 and 1847 the inhabitants of Kihnu Island almost entirely went into the Orthodox religion. Tsar Nicholas I gave a command ...