Kerimäki Church
The Kerimäki Church in Kerimäki, Finland, is the largest wooden church in the world. However, it is not the tallest; Săpânța-Peri Monastery church in Romania, at 78 metres, Ascension Cathedral in Kazakhstan, at 56 metres meters, and St. George's Cathedral in Guyana, at 43.5 metres, are taller.- Type: Church
- Denomination: Lutheran
- Description: church building in Savonlinna, Finland
- Also known as: “Kerimaen Kirkko”
- Address: Hälväntie 1, Kerimäki, 58200
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Kerimäki
Kerimäki is a rural former municipality, now part of Savonlinna. The namesake parish village lies by the lake Puruvesi. Kerimäki is best known for the world's largest wooden church.Kerimäki Church
- Categories: Lutheran church, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Savonlinna, Savonlinna, South Savonia, Finnish Lakeland, Finland, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
61.91263° or 61° 54′ 46″ north
Longitude
29.28525° or 29° 17′ 7″ east
Elevation
81 metres (266 feet)
Open location code
9GHFW77P+34
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worship
OpenStreetMap feature
building=church
OpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=lutheran
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Swedish—“Kerimäki Church” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “كنيسة كيريماكي”
- Chinese: “凯里迈基教堂”
- Chinese: “凱里邁基教堂”
- Dutch: “Kerk van Kerimaki”
- Dutch: “Kerk van Kerimäki”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه كيريماكى”
- Esperanto: “kirko de Kerimäki”
- Esperanto: “Kirko de Kerimäki”
- Finnish: “Kerimäen kirkko”
- Finnish: “Kerimäen Kirkko”
- Finnish: “Kerimäen puukirkko”
- French: “église de Kerimäki”
- French: “Église de Kerimäki”
- German: “Kirche von Kerimäki”
- Russian: “Церковь в Керимяки”
- Russian: “Церковь керимяки”
- Slovenian: “Cerkev Kerimäki”
- Swedish: “Kerimäki kyrka”
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