About this site
Messukylä old stone church, surrounded by a churchyard, is in the form of a medieval long church with a cross-vaulted sacristy on the north side. The sacristy's beautiful gable decoration refers primarily to the Satakunta church group. On the south side there is a transept expanded from the weapon house. The upper section of the masonry walls is exceptionally of log construction. The steep saddle roof is covered with shingles including the gables. The church's wall paintings are from the 17th century. The parish granary in the immediate vicinity of the church was built of timber in 1846. On the other side of the main road are the Central Cemetery established in 1861 and Messukylä school. Messukylä's old and new church with cemeteries form, despite the new buildings between them, a significant landscape ensemble.
Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish
- Municipality
- Tampere