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Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ...

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Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...

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Lutheran Lutheranism is one of the largest branches of Protestantism, identifying primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and Protestant Reformers, reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practice of the Cathol ...

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Hilding Ekelund Georg Hilding Ekelund (18 November 1893, in Kangasniemi – 30 January 1984, in Helsinki) was a Finnish architect, from 1950 to 1958 a professor of housing design at Helsinki University of Technology and from 1931 to 1934 editor-in-chief of the Fi ...

, architectural type = , groundbreaking = , completed date = , construction cost = , closed date = , demolished date = , capacity = 500 , parish = Töölö , diocese = Helsinki diocese Töölö Church ( fi, Töölön kirkko, sv, Tölö kyrka) is a

church in the Taka-Töölö district of

. The building represents

Nordic Classicism Nordic Classicism was a style of architecture that briefly blossomed in the Nordic countries ( Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland) between 1910 and 1930. Until a resurgence of interest for the period during the 1980s (marked by several scholarl ...

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following an architectural competition. Completed in 1930, it originally served as a parish center and was dedicated as a church when Töölö parish was created in 1941. The church main hall seats 400 people. There are also two parish meeting halls for 70 and 20 people. Töölö Church reopened in early 2016 after three and a half years of renovations.

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Töölö Church contains many pieces of art, including: * Relief ''Heavenly Feast'' and gilded wood sculpture ''Resurrected Christ'' by

Gunnar Finne Johan Gunnar Finne (4 April 1886 – 17 September 1952) was a Finnish sculptor. The architect Elna Kiljander became a single mother after a brief marriage with Finne from 1918 to 1926. Finne's best-known work is the memorial for the author Zac ...

* Glass paintings by Gunnar Forsström * Wall painting by

Paavo Leinonen Paavo is an Estonian language, Estonian and Finnish language, Finnish masculine given name, cognate to "Paul (given name), Paul". The Finnish patronymic surname Paavolainen is derived from it. It may refer to: *Paavo Aaltonen (1919–1962), Fin ...

* Reliefs of apostles Peter, Paul, Andrew, and Thomas by Carl Wilhelms * Partial sketch on altar wall by Henry Ericsson – Ericsson was commissioned to paint the altar wall but was killed in a car accident before completing the work

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Lutheran churches in Helsinki Churches completed in 1930 Hilding Ekelund buildings Töölö 20th-century churches in Finland Neoclassical church buildings in Finland {{Finland-church-stub

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