The Haukipudas Church is an evangelical Lutheran church in Haukipudas, Oulu.
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Haukipudas wooden church from 1762, in the middle of a churchyard surrounded by a stone wall near the mouth of Kiiminkijoki, is notable especially for Mikael Toppelius's poetically gentle paintings. Pictorial motifs based on the Old and New Testaments are found throughout the church's whitewashed log walls and vault. The church plan is a cross with outward-chamfered corners. The exterior, however, is characterized by a Jugendstil renovation made in the early 1900s, in which entrance halls were added to the ends of the transept arms and the pitches of the new tile roof were extended over them as well. In front of the church stands a three-storey Ostrobothnian Renaissance bell tower from 1751 with its alms box figure. The church's immediate environment includes a cemetery, a new parish centre (8 Studio Oy / Minna and Ilmari Lahdelma, 1990), an old parish hall (Risto Harju 1968), Haukipudas's first primary school from 1879, and a grain granary from 1858 serving as a local heritage museum.
Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish
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