Puolanka Church
The Church of Puolanka is the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the municipality of Puolanka in the northeastern Finnish landscape Kainuu .
history
The first church in Puolanka was built in 1792 after the place was elevated to a chapel parish. It was a wooden cruciform church in the classicism style based on plans by Jakob Rijf . In 1949 the old church burned down after being struck by lightning.
Building description
The Puolanka Church was designed by Olavi Sortta and completed in 1954. Wood and brick were used as building materials. The tower-less building has a rectangular floor plan with a floor area of 403 m². A little to the side is a free-standing stack of bells . The steep gable roof reaches almost to the ground. Thus the architecture of the church draws on the formal language of the medieval Finnish stone churches . The three-aisled church hall offers space for 450 people. The altar panel was created in 1982 by the artist Paavo Tolonen .
Web links
- Reijo Heikkinen: Puolangan kirkko (Finnish)
Coordinates: 64 ° 52 ′ 0.5 ″ N , 27 ° 40 ′ 27 ″ E