Karja Church

Karja Church is a medieval Lutheran church located in the village on island, . It is the rural church with the richest medieval stone sculpture decoration in all the .
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Lutheran
  • Description: church in Estonia
  • Address: Linnaka küla, 94213

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Angla windmill hill.

Museum
Photo: Kynnap, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a museum, which is situated 2 km west of Karja Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Karja and Aru.

Hamlet
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is a village in , in western . Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in . German philologist Kurt Treu was born in . is situated 2½ km southwest of Karja Church.

Hamlet
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is a village in , , in western . Before the administrative reform in 2017, the village was in . is situated 2½ km northwest of Karja Church.

Village
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was a municipality in , . The parish consisted of one small borough Leisi and 53 villages. The municipality had a population of 2,137 and covered an area of 347.91 km². is situated 6 km northwest of Karja Church.

Karja Church

Latitude
58.52336° or 58° 31′ 24″ north
Longitude
22.73256° or 22° 43′ 57″ east
Open location code
9GC4GPFM+82
Open­Street­Map ID
way 241119396
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­lutheran
Wiki­data ID
Q12366357
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Ukrainian—“Karja Church” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “كنيسة كاريا”
  • Chinese: “卡加教堂”
  • Chinese: “卡爾亞教堂”
  • Estonian: “Karja Katariina kirik”
  • Estonian: “Karja kirik”
  • Finnish: “Karjan kirkko”
  • Latvian: “Karjas baznīca”
  • Latvian: “Karjas Katrīnas baznīca; Karjas Svētās Katrīnas baznīca”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Karja kirke”
  • Norwegian: “Karja kirke”
  • Persian: “کلیسای کاریا”
  • Swedish: “Karja kyrka”
  • Ukrainian: “Церква Кар’я”

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