About this site
Wooden church, equal-armed cruciform church. The architecturally especially significant Lemi church is located at a road junction in the heart of the renewed municipal centre. The environmental dominance of the church and the attached bell tower has for now still been preserved as open. The church is an equal-armed cross and its transept arms taper markedly outward. The patterned shingle roof is steep and the gables hipped. Above the crossing there is a two-angled lantern. In the church hall's transept arms there are three-arch-form plank vaults and at the crossing a stepwise rising intermediate ceiling dome. The covering strips at the joining positions of the vault planks are decorated with red diagonal striping. The shaping of the edge board profiles in the different vault zones is reminiscent of lambrequin edges fitted with bells or tassels. The decorative motif also appears in the lower edges of the gallery fronts in the transept arms. The altarpiece depicting the crucified Christ was painted by Antti Muukka in 1925. The church's pews were renewed in the 1926 repair. The historicizing facade organ is from the late 1980s, manufactured by organ builders Matti Erola.
Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish
- Municipality
- Lemi