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Oulunsalo Church

Oulu

Why visit

Oulunsalo's neo-Gothic wooden church draws you in with its tall gable tower and high windows. Step into the light-filled space and linger a while.

Look for: Look up to the top of the tower, where the uppermost storey turns octagonal. In the graveyard stands the memorial to the offertory church built in 1665.

About this site

Oulunsalo's neo-Gothic wooden church is a long church with an end tower. The rectangular nave gable has a sacristy, and in the opposite gable above the entrance rises a tall tower. The tower is octagonal on the uppermost level. The windows are tall. Next to the church on the cemetery there is a memorial for the votive church built in 1665.

Official description (Museovirasto), machine-translated from Finnish

The Oulunsalo Church is an evangelical Lutheran church in the Finnish city of Oulu. It was part of the town of Oulunsalo until 2013 when that town was merged into Oulu.

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