
Why visit
Ristiina's equal-armed cruciform wooden church has a steep hipped roof, high walls and a shingled covering; its nave is spanned by a wooden barrel vault and the crossing by an angular cupola.
Look for: Pause at the altarpiece: a work painted by Alexandra Frosterus-Såltin in 1883, flanked by mid-17th-century portraits of Per Brahe and his wife Kristina Katarina Stenbock.
About this site
Wooden church, equal-armed cruciform church. Ristiina wooden church is in the form of an equal-armed cross. The steeply hipped, tall church is covered with shingles. The transept arm gables have small entrance structures. The church hall is covered by a plank barrel vault, with an angular dome at the crossing.
The altarpiece from 1883 is by Alexandra Frosterus-Sältin and is flanked by portraits of Pietari Brahe and his wife Kristina Katarina Stenbock, painted in the mid-17th century. Next to the church there is a separate wooden bell tower from 1752 (A. Sorsa). The churchyard is surrounded by an old stone wall.
In addition to the church, the church square is bordered by a municipal building constructed in the early 1900s and a church village school representing early primary school architecture. The younger building stock of the parish is represented by a wooden vicarage on the shore of Saimaa completed in 1946 and designed by Martti Välikangas.
Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish
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