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Helsinki Prison

The Helsinki Prison, also known as the Sörnäinen Prison is a prison located in the Hermanninmäki district of , , opened in 1881. At the moment it is the only prison operating in Helsinki proper after the Katajanokka prison was converted to a hotel and its inmates transferred to a new prison in , a suburban municipality.
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  • Type: Prison
  • Description: prison in Helsinki, Finland
  • Also known as: “Ristikkokatu 6”, “Ristikkokatu 8”, and “Sörnäistenkatu”
  • Address: Ristikkokatu 8, Helsinki, 00580

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Linnanmäki and Sörnäisten Kruununmakasiini.

Photo: Jyri Moisio, CC BY 3.0.
is an amusement park in , . It is the largest and most famous amusement park in Finland, and one of the most-visited in Europe.

Historic building
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is a historic building, which is situated 610 metres southwest of Helsinki Prison.

Church
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St. Paul's Church is a Lutheran church located in the neighborhood of , Finland. The red brick church, named after Paul the Apostle, was designed by Bertel Liljequist and it was completed in 1930. is situated 630 metres northwest of Helsinki Prison.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hermanni and Kyläsaari.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in Central major district of , . As of 2012, has 5,124 inhabitants living in an area of 1.05 km2. is part of district.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Quarter
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is a quarter.

Helsinki Prison

Latitude
60.19438° or 60° 11′ 40″ north
Longitude
24.96955° or 24° 58′ 10″ east
Elevation
1 metre (3 feet)
Operator
Rikosseuraamuslaitos
Open location code
9GG65XV9+QR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 469916706
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­prison
Geo­Names ID
12670014
Wiki­data ID
Q5710538
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In Other Languages

From Egyptian Arabic to Swedish—“Helsinki Prison” goes by many names.
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سجن هلسنكى”
  • Finnish: “Helsingin keskusvankila”
  • Finnish: “Helsingin vankila”
  • Finnish: “Helsingin Vankila”
  • Finnish: “Ristikkokatu 6”
  • Finnish: “Ristikkokatu 8”
  • Finnish: “Sörnäisten vankila”
  • Finnish: “Sörnäistenkatu”
  • French: “Prison d’Helsinki”
  • Russian: “Хельсинкская тюрьма”
  • Spanish: “Prision de Helsinki”
  • Spanish: “Prisión de Helsinki”
  • Swedish: “Helsingfors fängelse”
  • Swedish: “Helsingfors Fängelse”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Helsinki Prison”. Photo: Timo Noko, CC BY 2.0.