Töölö Church

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Phone +358 9 23406321 Architect Hilding Ekelund		Architectural style Nordic Classicism

Address Topeliuksenkatu 4, 00260 Helsinki, Finland Similar Tammisalo Church, Meilahti Church, Kulosaari Church, Käpylän kirkko

Töölö Church (Finnish: Töölön kirkko, Swedish: Tölö kyrka) is a Lutheran church in the Taka-Töölö district of Helsinki, Finland. The building represents Nordic Classicism and was designed by Hilding Ekelund following an architectural competition. Completed in 1930, it originally served as a parish center and was dedicated as a church when Töölö parish was created in 1941.

The church seats around 500 people. There are also two parish meeting halls for 70 and 20 people.

Töölö Church reopened in early 2016 after three and a half years of renovations.

Artwork

Töölö Church contains many pieces of art, including:

Relief Heavenly Feast and gilded wood sculpture Resurrected Christ by Gunnar Finne

Glass paintings by Gunnar Forsström

Wall painting by Paavo Leinonen

Reliefs of apostles Peter, Paul, Andrew, and Thomas by Carl Wilhelms

Partial sketch on altar wall by Henry Ericsson – Ericsson was commissioned to paint the altar wall but was killed in a car accident before completing the work

References

Töölö Church Wikipedia

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