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Nokia Church

Nokia

Why visit

Nokia's rendered neoclassical round church stands on the steep Viikinharju ridge between two lakes — octagonal outside, round within, by the old Turku–Hämeenlinna road.

Look for: In the cemetery stands the Brakel family's stone burial vault from 1843; at the ridge's edge rises the cantor's residence in jugend style, completed in 1908.

About this site

Stone church, round church. Nokia's plastered brick church is situated on the steep pine-forested Viikiniharju ridge between Vihnusjärvi and Pyhäjärvi, along the old Turku–Hämeenlinna highway. The church building with a west tower is a neoclassical round church. The church is externally octagonal and internally circular.

Above the entrance rises a square wooden tower ending in a dome. The church's interior architecture has undergone numerous changes. Adjacent to the church is a cemetery consecrated in 1842. The church environment includes a log granary, a mortuary from the 1920s designed by Yrjö Waskinen, a red brick dissection room, and a churchyard surrounded by a stone wall.

On the cemetery there are, among others, the stone vault graves of the Spåre and Brakel families, the latter from 1843. Along the ridge edge there is also a Jugendstil cantor's official residence completed in 1908 with outbuildings. South of the church on the shore of Pyhäjärvi is Maatiala parsonage, whose main building in Empire style dates from 1839. East of the parsonage, on its former fields, is the so-called new cemetery.

Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish

Nokia Church

The Nokia Church is a 19th-century stone church located in Nokia town in Pirkanmaa, Finland. The Neoclassical church building was designed by C. L. Engel (1778–1840), and it was completed in 1837.

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