Manija is like a little brother to Kihnu Island and its inhabitants are part of the same ethnic group as the population of Kihnu. For centuries, this small and rocky island was used as a pasture by the manor owners on the mainland, and as a stopover by ...
The current chapel is the third on the same spot. The first one was finished in 1689,
it was in 1764 or in 1796 that the building of the second one started. What became
of them is not sure. There are engravings of both of the numbers in the chapel...
The Stone Bridge was built in 1784 after the fire of 1775. It was an initiation from George Browne, the Governor General of Livonia with Irish backround. The eastern half of the bridge was destroyed by the retreating Soviet army in 1941, the rest in the...