Jusélius Mausoleum ( fi, Juséliuksen mausoleumi) is one of the most famous sights in

Pori ) , website www.pori.fi Pori (; sv, Björneborg ) is a city and municipality on the west coast of Finland. The city is located some from the Gulf of Bothnia, on the estuary of the Kokemäki River, west of Tampere, north of Turku and north-w ...

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, located at the 1884 opened Käppärä Cemetery. It is the only

mausoleum A mausoleum is an external free-standing building constructed as a monument enclosing the interment space or burial chamber of a deceased person or people. A mausoleum without the person's remains is called a cenotaph. A mausoleum may be consid ...

in Finland and was completed in 1903.

Sigrid Juselius

The mausoleum was built by local businessman Fritz Arthur Jusélius (1855–1930) for his daughter Sigrid (1887–1898) to be her last place of rest. Sigrid died of

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at the age of eleven.Juselius Mausoleum
Lonely Planet. Retrieved 29 November 2013. Her

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is placed in the basement of the mausoleum. It can be seen from the upper floor. The sarcophagus is made of white Italian

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and designed by architect

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. Fritz Arthur Jusélius himself is also buried in the mausoleum in its side wing. His two wives have their resting places outside the mausoleum.Sigrid Juséliuksen mausoleumi
Evangelical Lutheran Parish of Pori. (in Finnish). Retrieved 29 November 2013. The Sigrid Juselius Foundation was established in 1930 to promote medical research in Finland.

Mauseoleum

Juselius Mausoleum was built in 1901–1903. It was planned by

Josef Stenbäck Josef Daniel Stenbäck (May 2, 1854, Alavus — April 27, 1929, Helsinki) was a Finnish church architect and engineer. He designed 35 churches for Finland, which until 1917 was part of the Russian Empire. Four of the churches were located in the ...

in the

Gothic Revival Gothic Revival (also referred to as Victorian Gothic, neo-Gothic, or Gothick) is an architectural movement that began in the late 1740s in England. The movement gained momentum and expanded in the first half of the 19th century, as increasingly ...

style.The Juselius Mausoleum
City of Pori. Retrieved 29 November 2013. The famous Finnish artist

Akseli Gallen-Kallela Akseli Gallen-Kallela (26 April 1865 – 7 March 1931) was a Finnish painter who is best known for his illustrations of the ''Kalevala'', the Finnish national epic. His work is considered a very important aspect of the Finnish national ident ...

painted the interior, including

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es "Kevät" (Spring), "Rakennus" (Construction), "Tuonelan joella" (By the River of Tuonela), "Hävitys" (Destruction), "Talvi" (Winter) and "Syksy" (Autumn). The original frescoes were destroyed by fire in 1931. They were repainted by Gallen-Kallela's son

Jorma Gallen-Kallela Jorma Gallen-Kallela (né Gallén) (22 November 1898, in Ruovesi – 1 December 1939) was a Finnish artist. He followed in the footsteps of his father, the famed artist Akseli Gallen-Kallela. Biography He studied arts in Buenos Aires in 1915– ...

in 1933–1939 based on preserved sketches and the mausoleum was opened again in 1941. Decorations include

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symbolism since Akseli Gallen-Kallela and F.A. Jusélius both were dedicated

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. Another famous Finnish artist,

Pekka Halonen Pekka Halonen (23 September 1865 – 1 December 1933) was a painter of Finnish landscapes and people in the national romantic style. His favorite subjects were the Finnish landscape and its people which he depicted in his Realist style.Aimo Reita ...

, painted the frescoes on the vestibule. They were destroyed as well, but never repainted.Juseliuksen mausoleumi ja Käppärän hautausmaa
Finnish National Board of Antiquities. (in Finnish). Retrieved 29 November 2013. The door of the building is made of bronze; it was constructed by Finnish sculptor Alpo Sailo. Juselius Mausoleum and the surrounding Käppärä Cemetery are listed as Cultural environments of national significance by the

Finnish National Board of Antiquities The Finnish Heritage Agency ( fi, Museovirasto, sv, Museiverket), previously known in English as the National Board of Antiquities, preserves Finland's material cultural heritage: collects, studies and distributes knowledge of it. The agency is ...

Frescos

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