Heinävesi Church is an Evangelical Lutheran wooden church located in Heinävesi

Heinävesi

Heinävesi is a municipality of Finland.It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the Southern Savonia region. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water...

, Finland

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

. It was built in 1890–1891 and designed by Josef Stenbäck

Josef Stenbäck

Josef Daniel Stenbäck was a Finnish church architect and engineer who worked in the Imperial Russia and independent Finland. He designed 35 churches for Finland and Finnish Karelia ceded to Soviet Union in 1944...

. The church represents the Gothic Revival

Gothic Revival architecture

The Gothic Revival is an architectural movement that began in the 1740s in England...

 style, like many of the other churches designed by Stenbäck.

The length of the church is 40 meters, breadth 30 meters and height 45 meters. The church has 2,000 seats and is thus the second biggest wooden church in Finland. The bell tower has two bells, a smaller one from 1765 and a larger one from 1906. The altar painting was done by Johan Kortman in 1893.

The organ

Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurized air through pipes selected via a keyboard. Because each organ pipe produces a single pitch, the pipes are provided in sets called ranks, each of which has a common timbre and volume throughout the keyboard compass...

 was originally made by Jens Zachariassen in 1906 (25 stops). In 1981, the Organ Factory of Kangasala

Kangasala

Kangasala is a municipality in Finland, next to Tampere. It was founded in 1865. The municipality has a population of and covers an area of of which is water. The population density is ....

 (Kangasalan urkutehdas) made a new organ (33 stops) using 20 stops from the original organ.

The first church in Heinävesi was a small chapel, built in 1748. The second church was a massive wooden "temple" church. It was built in 1840 and designed by Carl Ludvig Engel

Carl Ludvig Engel

Carl Ludvig Engel, or Johann Carl Ludwig Engel , was a German architect known for his neoclassical style. He had a great impact on the architecture of Finland in the first part of the 19th century....

. The church burned down in 1877.
The churchyard also is home to a Local History Museum, the Pitäjäntupa needlework center and the old cemetery. Culturally, the great hill of the church is a historical setting. Lake Kermajärvi is located 90 meters below the top of the hill.

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