Why visit
In Anttola's cruciform church, old timber lives on in a new form: it was built from the logs of Juva's former cross church. Step into the lakeside village's harbour setting, lined with old wooden houses.
Look for: Notice the low rectangular extensions added during construction to the inner corners of the cross arms. Nearby stands the former grain store, built of stone in 1876.
About this site
Wooden church, cruciform church. Anttola wooden church is in the form of a cruciform church with an end tower. It was built from the timbers of the former Juva cross church, to which low rectangular extensions were added at the interior corners of the transept arms during the building phase. A tower was added later to the western gable of the nave.
Around the churchyard there is the wooden church, a number of old public buildings, and the wooden residential buildings at the harbour of the lakeside village. The nearby old parish loan granary (now a museum) was masonry-built of stone in 1876.
Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish
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- Mikkeli
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