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This is the List of churches in Estonia. It aims to include all current churches, chapels and monasteries in the current territory of Estonia, ...
The national church of Estonia is the Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church, of which St John's is a parish church. The motivation for construction was the large size of the existing congregation at the neighbouring Holy Spirit parish church (sometimes translated 'Holy Ghost'), which by the mid-nineteenth century numbered more than 14,000 ...
Estonian Council of Churches (ECC; Estonian: Eesti Kirikute Nõukogu) is an Estonian organisation which unites and promotes co-operation between Christian churches and congregations in Estonia. [1] ECC president is Urmas Viilma. [2] ECC is an associate member of Conference of European Churches. [3]
The Estonian Church may refer to: The Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church; The Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church, also officially known as the Orthodox Church of ...
Under Estonian law it is the legal successor to the pre–World War II Estonian Orthodox Church, which in 1940 had over 210,000 members, three bishops, 156 parishes, 131 priests, 19 deacons, two monasteries, and a theological seminary; the majority of the members were ethnic Estonians.
St. Nicholas Orthodox Church, Tallinn (Estonian: Tallinna Nikolai kirik) is an Orthodox church in Tallinn, Estonia. The church is named after Saint Nicholas. The church is chosen one of the Estonian cultural monuments being both architectural monument and historical monument. [1] The church is built during 1820–1827, it was designed by Luigi ...
As a result of World War II, the church was left without active congregation, and the Soviet occupation regime handed the building over to local Baptists in 1950. [1] [2] The Baptist congregation continues to meet at St. Olaf's today. From 1944 until 1991, the Soviet KGB used St. Olaf's Church's spire as a radio tower and surveillance point. [3]
The Resurrection of Christ Cathedral (Estonian: Narva Issanda Ülestõusmise peakirik, Russian: Нарвский Воскресенский собор) is a Neo-Byzantine style Estonian Orthodox Church of Moscow Patriarchate located in Narva, Estonia. The church was constructed between 1890 and 1896 to cater to the religious needs of the cotton ...