Holy Cross Church ( fi, Pyhän Ristin kirkko), also known as Iisalmi New Church ( fi, Iisalmen uusikirkko), is a stone church in

Iisalmi Iisalmi (; sv, Idensalmi) is a town and municipality in the region of Northern Savonia in Finland. It is located north of Kuopio and south of Kajaani. The municipality has a population of (), which makes it the second largest of the five towns ...

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, which was consecrated in 1934. The church, designed by Eino Pitkänen, is a

basilica In Ancient Roman architecture, a basilica is a large public building with multiple functions, typically built alongside the town's forum. The basilica was in the Latin West equivalent to a stoa in the Greek East. The building gave its name ...

with an end tower. The church, built of brick and concrete, represents a modernity based on

classicism Classicism, in the arts, refers generally to a high regard for a classical period, classical antiquity in the Western tradition, as setting standards for taste which the classicists seek to emulate. In its purest form, classicism is an aestheti ...

, which already resembles functionalism with its light wall surfaces. Before the association of municipalities and parishes in the North Savonian region in 1970, the Holy Cross Church was the main church of the Iisalmi Town Parish. The altarpiece is a

mosaic A mosaic is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and were particularly pop ...

by artist Uuno Eskola and depicts the crucified

Jesus Jesus, likely from he, יֵשׁוּעַ, translit=Yēšūaʿ, label=Hebrew/Aramaic ( AD 30 or 33), also referred to as Jesus Christ or Jesus of Nazareth (among other names and titles), was a first-century Jewish preacher and religious ...

.Alttaritaulu, urut ja kirkon muu koristelu
– Iisalmen seurakunta (in Finnish)

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Holy Cross Church
at Iisalmen seurakunta (in Finnish)
Iisalmen kirkkoaukio ja puistoakselit
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(in Finnish) Buildings of Iisalmi Churches completed in 1934 Lutheran churches in Finland {{Finland-church-stub

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