This Historicist redbrick church from 1920 was the first church built in the Republic
of Estonia, the republic itself being born in 1918 but then being occupied for two
years. before that, during the narrow times the believers of Elva used to gath...
After the countess Maria Brevern De la Gardie gave the
congregation a pine forest, known now as the Church’s Pine
Forest, a new stone church was built in 1867 to replace the old
dry-rotting chapel there. It is a church with a tower bell that wa...
Location: Tepelvälja küla, Vihula vald, Lääne-Virumaa
Esku chapel was completed in 1845 as a family chapel for Sagadi
estate owners. The cemetery its self lays south from the chapel.
The first tombstone is told to memorize a member from a different
noble family though, a member of the von Wrangels...