... Lovely autumn church view located within Old Rauma... an idyllic old town on the western coast of Finland... the town was built around a monastery, presently the Church of the Holy Cross... it is a prominent feature of the Old Rauma district, which is an outstanding example of a traditional well-preserved Nordic wooden town... the vault paintings, stained glass windows, wooden pulpit and the oldest votive tablet in Finland make this fascinating sanctuary....one of the few buildings which survived the devastating town fire in 1682... Thanks Paivi!【ツ】
The Church of the Holy Cross is a medieval fieldstone church. The exact age of the church is unknown, but it was built to serve as the monastery church of the Rauma Franciscan Friary.
The monastery had been established in the early 15th century and a wooden church was built on this site around the year 1420. Historians assume the current stone church was completed in 1515–1520.
The Church served the monastery until 1538, when it was abandoned for a hundred years as the friary was disbanded in the Swedish Reformation. She was re-established as a Lutheran church in 1640, when the nearby Church of the Holy Trinity was destroyed by fire.
Old Rauma was added to the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1991.
Photo: Pekka Lehmuskallio
Stamp:
Sveaborg - Joint Issue with Sweden
(Issued 04-05-2006)
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