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Tampere Old Church

The Tampere Old Church is a wooden cross church opened in 1825 in , near the Central Square. The old church is mainly used by the Swedish-speaking Lutheran congregation in Tampere.
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Wikipedia
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Lutheran
  • Description: church in Tampere, Finland
  • Also known as: “Old Church” and “Old Church, Tampere”
  • Address: Tampere
  • Roof shape: pyramidal

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Tampere Theatre and Tampere City Hall.

Theater building
Photo: Juho Paavisto, Public domain.
The is one of the two main active theatres in , , along with the . The theatre was started in 1904 and the opening ceremony was held in 1913.

Town hall
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The is a Neo-Renaissance building in , , situated at the edge of the Tampere Central Square. The current city hall was built in 1890 and was designed by Georg Schreck. is situated 110 metres southwest of Tampere Old Church.

Arts center
Photo: PtG, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an arts center.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tammerkoski and Nalkala.

Suburb
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is a suburb.

Suburb
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is a neighbourhood in the city of , , covering the southern part of the city center from Hämeenkatu to the market square.

Suburb
Photo: Methem, Public domain.
is a district in , . It was born in the late 1870s as a working-class neighborhood to the eastern outskirts of the town. As Tampere soon expanded, is now a part of the city center between the river and the railway.

Tampere Old Church

Latitude
61.49857° or 61° 29′ 55″ north
Longitude
23.76111° or 23° 45′ 40″ east
Elevation
97 metres (318 feet)
Inception
1824
Open location code
9GH5FQX6+CC
Open­Street­Map ID
way 93350178
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­lutheran
Open­Street­Map attribute
roof-shape=­pyramidal
Geo­Names ID
12820304
Wiki­data ID
Q10502462
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In Other Languages

From Finnish to Swedish—“Tampere Old Church” goes by many names.
  • Finnish: “Tampereen vanha kirkko”
  • Finnish: “Tampereen Vanha kirkko”
  • Finnish: “Tampereen Vanha Kirkko”
  • Finnish: “Vanha kirkko (Tampere)”
  • Finnish: “Vanha kirkko”
  • French: “ancienne église de Tampere”
  • French: “Ancienne église de Tampere”
  • Galician: “Igrexa vella de Tampere”
  • German: “Alte Kirche von Tampere”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Den gamle kirken i Tammerfors”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Gamla kyrkan i Tammerfors”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Vanha kirkko”
  • Norwegian: “Gamla kyrkan i Tammerfors”
  • Polish: “Stary kościół w Tampere”
  • Russian: “Старая церковь Тампере”
  • Russian: “Старая церковь”
  • Swedish: “Gamla kyrkan, Tammerfors”
  • Swedish: “Gamla kyrkan”
  • Swedish: “Tammerfors gamla kyrka”
  • Swedish: “Tammerfors Gamla Kyrka”

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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 “Tampere Old Church”. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.