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Old Church of Sodankylä

Old Church of Sodankylä

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Old Church of Sodankylä

Name: Old Church of Sodankylä
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Location: Lapland, Northern Finland, Finland

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1. Old Church of Sodankylä – Old Church of Sodankylä loop from Sodankylä

6.28km

01:36

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2. Old Church of Sodankylä – Old Church of Sodankylä loop from Sodankylä

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01:17

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3. Old Church of Sodankylä – Old Church of Sodankylä loop from Kylälaakso

3.33km

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10m

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Berni 🚵🏻‍♂️

July 23, 2024

As early as 1674, the Swedish King Charles XI offered to build a church. The residents of Sodankylä and Sodankylä rejected this at the time.

Eleven years later, the Sami villages of Sodankylä, Sompio and Kittilä applied to Johan Tuderus, the parish priest of Kemi, to ask the king to establish a parish in Sodankylä. Because of Sodankylä's remoteness, the preparations took two years. King Charles XI finally granted 900 copper thalers from his own coffers on September 23, 1688.

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Christine 🚶‍♀️ 📷 🌏

July 19, 2024

The Old Church of Sodankylä is a wooden church built in 1689 in the municipality of Sodankylä in Finnish Lapland. The simple building is one of the oldest and best preserved wooden churches in Finland. The Old Church of Sodankylä is located on the edge of the church village, the main town of the municipality, in the middle of an old cemetery not far from the New Church from 1859. Since the completion of the New Church, the Evangelical Lutheran parish of Sodankylä has only used the Old Church in the summer for special occasions.

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Old Church of Sodankylä

1. Old Church of Sodankylä – Old Church of Sodankylä loop from Sodankylä

2. Old Church of Sodankylä – Old Church of Sodankylä loop from Sodankylä

3. Old Church of Sodankylä – Old Church of Sodankylä loop from Kylälaakso

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