Luvia
Luvia [ ˈluʋiɑ ] is a former municipality with 3329 inhabitants (as of March 31, 2016) in the southwestern Finnish landscape of Satakunta . It is located 20 kilometers south of the port town of Pori on the coast of the Gulf of Bothnia . Luvia speaks Finnish only .
The parish existed since 1870 and includes the villages of Hanninkylä, Korvenkylä, Lemlahti, Luodonkylä, Löytty, Mikola, Niemenkylä, Peränkylä, Sassila, Sittlahti and Väipäre in addition to the church village Luvia. The parish only became independent in 1901, before the villages were part of the parish of the neighboring town of Eurajoki .
The parish church of Luvia was built from 1908 to 1910 according to plans by Josef Stenbäck in the style of Finnish national romanticism from red granite and sand stones; the altarpiece from 1912 is by Ilmari Launis . Luvia's attractions also include a 35 meter high lighthouse on the island of Säppi, built in 1873.
Luvia is also the founding site of the first Finnish-speaking Baptist church . It was founded in 1870 by a seaman named Henriksson.
Luvia has been part of the Eurajoki community since the beginning of 2017 .
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Albert W. Wardin (Ed.): Baptists around the World. A comprehensive handbook . Broadman & Holman Publishers: [no location] 1995. ISBN 0-8054-1076-7 . P. 241
- ↑ Uutiset at yle.fi
Coordinates: 61 ° 22 ′ N , 21 ° 38 ′ E