The Kiiminki Church is an evangelical Lutheran church in the Kiiminki district of the Finnish city of Oulu. It was part of the town of Kiiminki until 2013 when that town was merged into Oulu.
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Kiiminki cross church with bell tower on a wooded heathland is a beautifully preserved and stylistically pure example of Ostrobothnian wooden church architecture from the late 18th century. Kiiminki church is a cruciform church with chamfered exterior corners. The church's shingle roof is relatively shallow and above the crossing there is a weathervane pole with a thick base and a rooster. The church hall is covered by barrel vaults, at whose intersection there is an opening corresponding to an oculus, a so-called heavenly window. At the crossing there are tie beams of double timber width. On the chancel wall there is a triptych with Gethsemane, Bronze Serpent, and Crucifixion motifs, painted with distemper directly onto the wall surface in a rococo frame by Mikael Toppelius, probably from the late 1760s. Behind the chancel wall, as an extension of the eastern cross, is a sacristy. Above the doors to the sacristy, Moses with the tablets of the law and High Priest Aaron have been painted. At Kiiminki church there is an Ostrobothnian Renaissance bell tower from 1777.
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