Moksi is a small village in

Korpilahti Korpilahti is a former municipality of Finland. Together with Jyväskylän maalaiskunta, Korpilahti was consolidated with Jyväskylä on January 1, 2009. It is located in the former province of Western Finland and is part of the Central Finland ...

, since 2009 a part of

Jyväskylä Jyväskylä () is a city and municipality in Finland in the western part of the Finnish Lakeland. It is located about 150 km north-east from Tampere, the third largest city in Finland; and about 270 km north from Helsinki, the capital of ...

. It is located in the Pohjois-Korpilahti sub-district along with Tikkala and Sarvenperä-Saukkola.

Geography

Moksi is located near a lake named ''Moksinjärvi'', connected to Päijänne by the Vuojoki.

History

Moksi is named after a local farm, established in 1582. According to Terho Itkonen, the name is of

Sámi The Sámi ( ; also spelled Sami or Saami) are a Finno-Ugric-speaking people inhabiting the region of Sápmi (formerly known as Lapland), which today encompasses large northern parts of Norway, Sweden, Finland, and of the Murmansk Oblast, Rus ...

origin and related to the

Inari Sámi Inari Sámi (, "the Inarian language", or , "the Inari (Aanaar) Sámi language") is a Sámi languages, Sámi language spoken by the Inari Sámi people, Inari Sámi of Finland. It has approximately 300 speakers, the majority of whom are middle-ag ...

word ''mokseđ'' meaning "to cross over water". The village name Moksi in

Vihti Vihti (; sv, Vichtis) is a small municipality located in the Uusimaa region of province of Southern Finland, approximately northwest of the capital city Helsinki. The municipality has a population of () and covers an area of of which is wate ...

likely has the same origin. As a village, Moksi was first mentioned in 1773 as ''Moxi''. It was a part of

Jämsä Jämsä () is a town and municipality of Finland. It is located in the Central Finland region, about southwest of Jyväskylä. The municipality has a population of (), which make it the second largest town of the Central Finland after Jyväskyl ...

until 1861 when Korpilahti became an independent municipality. After Korpilahti's consolidation with

in 2009, Moksi became one of its sub-districts. The village has also been known as ''Riihijärvi'', which may suggest that this name has been used for the Moksinjärvi as well.

Events

The special stage of

Rally Finland Rally Finland (formerly known as the Neste Rally Finland, Neste Oil Rally Finland, 1000 Lakes Rally and Rally of the Thousand Lakes; fi, Suomen ralli, sv, Finska rallyt) is a rally competition in the Finnish Lakeland in Central Finland. The ra ...

has often been driven in Moksi. In 2021 and 2022, the route was called ''Sahloinen-Moksi'', Sahloinen being a nearby village further west in

Koskenpää Koskenpää is a village and former municipality of Finland in the Central Finland region. It was consolidated with Jämsänkoski in 1969, which in turn was consolidated with Jämsä in 2009. It bordered Jämsänkoski, Jämsä, Kuorevesi, Keuru ...

Services

Moksi does not have a functioning school. The former school building is now used as a meeting hall.

External links

moksi.fi
– Official website

References

Jyväskylä Villages in Finland {{WesternFinland-geo-stub