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Obinitsa (also known as Obiniste, Abinitsa, Kirikmäe) is a village in
Setomaa Parish Setomaa Parish () is a rural municipality of Estonia, in Võru County. It has a population of 2,849 (as of 1 January 2022) and an area of 463.1 km2. Demographics Population in the municipality: * 2000: 4,206 * 2011: 2,990 * 2022: 2,849 ...
,
Võru County Võru County ( or ''Võrumaa''; ) is a county in southern Estonia. It is bordered by Valga and Põlva counties, Latvia's Alūksne and Ape municipalities, and Russia's Pskov Oblast (making it the only Estonian county to border two countries) ...
, southeastern
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. It has a population of 147 (as of 1 January 2022). The Meremäe-Obinitsa Primary School was closed in 2009, after that the building is used as a nursing home. Obinitsa is the
Finno-Ugric Finno-Ugric () is a traditional linguistic grouping of all languages in the Uralic languages, Uralic language family except for the Samoyedic languages. Its once commonly accepted status as a subfamily of Uralic is based on criteria formulated in ...
Capital of Culture in 2015.Obinitsa becomes the 2015 Finno-Ugric Capital of Culture
ERR News, 2015-01-07


Obinitsa School-Church

Obinitsa School-Church is an
Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church The Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church (EAOC; , officially the Orthodox Church of Estonia) is an Eastern Orthodox Church, Orthodox church in Estonia under the direct jurisdiction of the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople. Under Estonian law i ...
. It is located in Obinitsa, about 280 kilometers from
Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...
. Construction of the church began in 1896 and its official inauguration came in 1897. On 16 December 1894, land was allocated for a church and school by the Obinitsa village community. The Church was closed in 1950. The bell tower was dismantled and the building turned into a school.


Gallery

Obinitsa Kunstizaal.jpg, Obinitsa Art Hall Obinitsa muuseum (2015).jpg, Obinitsa museum Obinitsa tsässon 2013 sügis.JPG, Obinitsa tsässon Obinitsa kirik 2013 sügis.JPG, The Obinitsa Church of Transfiguration of Our Lord


See also

* The Obinitsa Church of Transfiguration of Our Lord


References

Villages in Võru County Setomaa Parish {{Võru-geo-stub