Turun tuomiokirkko

Turun tuomiokirkko

The Cathedral of Turku is the only medieval cathedral in Finland . ‘Tuomiokirkko‘ is in the center of Turku and next to the river Aurajoki. This church is the finish main church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church.
The Constructionstart of the cathedral was in the end of the 13th century and probably the cathedral was consecrated in the year 1300.

 





Since the 16th  century there were no big changes to the building itself, only the tower is from the modern era.  Because of some fires they had to rebuild the tower several times. When the city was almost completely destroyed in the fire of 1827, the Cathedral was also affected. The tower is now 85.53m high, including the cross which is 3.40m high.




 

The in Middle Ages builed smallerside chapels were converted during the reformation to the dead vaults. Many important personalities of Finnish history (mostly bishops and warlords) are buried here.







 
In the year1980, a new, equipped with 75 registers pipe-organ was installed, which comes from the Finnish pipe-organ-builder Veikko Virtanen, who had also built the pipe-organ of Temppeliaukio Church in Helsinki.