Kannelmäki ( sv, Gamlas,

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: ''Kantsu'') is a sub-neighbourhood of the neighbourhood of

Kaarela Kaarela ( sv, Kårböle) is a subdistrict in a Western major district of Helsinki, Finland. Kaarela is split into four subareas: Kannelmäki (12,569 inhabitants), Maununneva (2,501 inhabitants), Malminkartano (8,538 inhabitants) and Hakuninmaa ...

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. Kannelmäki is located a bit more than ten kilometres from the centre of Helsinki, and is bounded by

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in the south,

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in the east, and the Mätäjoki river in the west and north. It is a part of the Western major district. In early 2006, Kannelmäki had 12 488 inhabitants. The streets in Kannelmäki are named after

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and villages in Ostrobothnia. The area was originally named ''Vanhainen – Gamlas'', which comes from the village of Gamlas originally located at the site, and its Finnish translation. Because of the wishes of the local inhabitants, the name was changed to ''Kannelmäki – Gamlas'' in 1959.Huuhka, Mirja: ''Kaarela: neliapila.'' Helsinki: Helsingin kaupunki, 1990. . The singular

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of Kannelmäki was completed in 1968.The birth of Kaarela
Kaarela society. Accessed 19 August 2007. Services in Kannelmäki are concentrated in the

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and opened in 1959, the

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building (originally opened in 1973 as Eka-Market, then as Maxi) and the surroundings of the

Kannelmäki railway station Kannelmäki railway station ( fi, Kannelmäen rautatieasema, sv, Gamlas järnvägsstation) is a railway station on the Helsinki commuter rail network located in northern Helsinki, Finland. It is located approximately nine kilometres to the north/ ...

. Prisma was expanded into a larger complex called the

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in October 2013, now containing a department store, a restaurant area and about 80 specialty stores. It is the fifth largest shopping centre in the

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area and the ninth largest in Finland. The Kannelmäki railway station is one of the stations on the

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. It is located next to the cultural centre Kanneltalo.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Kannelmaki Quarters of Helsinki