About this site
Wooden church, double cruciform church. Lappee church, located on Valtakatu in the centre of Lappeenranta, is the only surviving double cruciform church from the 18th century, i.e. a kahtamoinen. The church has, in eastern Finnish tradition, outward-tapering transept arms. The central space of the crossing is bounded by longitudinal and transverse tie beams running crosswise. The octagonal intermediate ceiling dome rises in two sections. According to Lars Pettersson, it is "an exceptionally grand and simultaneously daring but hardly particularly beautiful structure, which has permitted an unusually wide unified vaulting resting on log walls without the aid of support posts". To the south of the church there is an old cemetery from the late 18th century and the country's second largest hero grave area for those fallen in the wars of 1939–1940 and 1941–1944 after Helsinki's Hietaniemi. In the hero grave area at the southern end of the cemetery, 1,508 fallen soldiers are buried. The red granite memorial made by Väinö Aaltonen was unveiled in 1951.
Official description (Museovirasto) — machine-translated from Finnish
- Municipality
- Lappeenranta