Taagepera Church (Taagepera's Saint John's church, et, Taagepera Kirik) is a church in the village of
Ala Ala, ALA, Alaa or Alae may refer to:
Places
* Ala, Hiiu County, Estonia, a village
* Ala, Valga County, Estonia, a village
* Ala, Alappuzha, Kerala, India, a village
* Ala, Iran, a village in Semnan Province
* Ala, Gotland, Sweden
* Alad, S ...
,
Tõrva Parish
Tõrva Parish ( et, Tõrva vald) is a rural municipality in Valga County. It includes the town of Tõrva.
Settlements
;Town
Tõrva
;Boroughs
Helme, Hummuli
;Villages
Aitsra, Ala, Alamõisa, Holdre, Jeti, Jõgeveste, Kalme, Karjatnur ...
,
Valga County
Valga County ( et, Valga maakond or ''Valgamaa'') is a first-level administrative unit and one of 15 counties of Estonia. It comprises the former area of Valga District. The present-day county was created on 1 January 1990. The capital and lar ...
in southern
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 ...
. The building, which is made of stone and has a wooden tower, was constructed in 1674. It is located on a small hill overlooking the village of Taagepera and has an associated
cemetery
A cemetery, burial ground, gravesite or graveyard is a place where the remains of dead people are buried or otherwise interred. The word ''cemetery'' (from Greek , "sleeping place") implies that the land is specifically designated as a buri ...
. It has an organ built by
Ernst Carl Kessler, who made the first organ in
Sitka, Alaska.
The building is registered in the Kultuurimälestiste riiklik register (
National Register of Cultural Monuments) of Estonia, effective
27 September 1999.
References
Sources
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* {{cite web, url=http://maaleht.delfi.ee/news/eestielu/arhiiv/taagepera-kirik-sai-heade-annetajate-toel-sepistatud-kuunla-aluse?id=66248868 , title=Taagepera kirik sai heade annetajate toel sepistatud küünla-aluse , trans-title=The Taagepera Church received a forged candle base with the help of the best donors
, date=8 June 2013 , work=Maaleht
Former churches in Estonia
Tõrva Parish
Tourist attractions in Valga County
Churches completed in 1674
Historic sites in Estonia