59.453556, 24.861689
GPS: 59° 27' 13" N, 24° 51' 42" E
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 to give the building of the Lutheran church to the Orthodox congregation and an onion dome was built on top of the bell tower. Inside the church you can admire the simple but beautiful iconostasis in the entire space within the Church.
Location: Pikk 70, Kesklinn, Tallinn, Harjumaa, 10133
Standing guard at the north end of Pikk street are two of Tallinn's most impressive defensive structures, the Great Coastal Gate (Suur Rannavärav) and Fat Margaret tower (Paks Margareeta).
They were built not only to defend the city from the seaw...
The first limestone lighthouse is known to have been erected on the Pakri peninsula in 1724.
The location was allegedly picked by czar Peter the Great himself. In 1889, a new limestone lighthouse was built about 80m away from the old one, which w...
A legend says local peasants received a miraculous relevation on this hill and later on found an Orthodox icon most holy under the oak-tree here, a sacrificial one itself. All of this happened in the 16th century.
To honor those events a chapel was e...
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