Loopealse ( Estonian for ''"

Alvar An alvar is a biological environment based on a limestone plain with thin or no soil and, as a result, sparse grassland vegetation. Often flooded in the spring, and affected by drought in midsummer, alvars support a distinctive group of prair ...

"'', literally ''"Above Alvar"'') is a subdistrict ( et, asum) in the district of

Lasnamäe Lasnamäe is the most populous administrative district of Tallinn, the capital of Estonia. The district's population is about 119,000, the majority of which is Russian-speaking. Local housing is mostly represented by 5–16 stories high panel bl ...

Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...

, the capital of

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

. It has a population of 2,388 ().

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File:Tallinn Loopealse view.jpg, File:EE-TLN-LAS-Katleri.JPG, View from Loopealse to Katleri File:EE-TLN-LAS-Church.JPG, The construction of the

Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Quick to Hearken" Church of the Icon of the Mother of God "Quick to Hearken" ( et, Tallinna Jumalaema Kiirestikuulja ikooni kirik; also Lasnamäe Church) is an orthodox church in Tallinn, Estonia. The church is dedicated to the "Quick to Hearken" icon of the Moth ...

in 2009.

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Subdistricts of Tallinn {{Tallinn-geo-stub

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