Why visit
Hausjärvi's wooden church is a long church with a tower, its chancel corners bevelled and narrower transept arms opening to each side — step inside to a quiet wooden interior.
Look for: Pause before the altarpiece "The Resurrection of Jesus," painted by R.W. Ekman and donated in 1865.
About this site
Wooden church, octagonal long church. Hausjärvi wooden church is of the type of a towered long church with chamfered corners at the altar gable. On both sides of the nave are narrower and lower transept arms. The gable has a low sacristy with a saddle roof. The church has been repaired on several occasions.
The altarpiece donated to the church in 1865 is R.W. Ekman's painting "The Resurrection of Jesus". The churchyard is surrounded by a stone wall. The log-built parish granary in Hausjärvi church village dates from 1853. The building now serves as a local heritage museum. Nearby are also the former vicarage and the curate's parsonage.
Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish
- Municipality
- Hausjärvi
