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Kankainen Manor (Finnish: Kankaisten kartano, Swedish: Kankas gård) is a late medieval manor in Masku, Finland, located along a small river about one kilometre south of Masku town centre. Kankainen Manor is considered to be the oldest surviving residential building in Finland, as its oldest parts may be from the end of the 15th century. [1]
The oldest preserved wooden churches in Finland date back to the 17th century (e.g. Sodankylä Old Church, Lapland, 1689); none of the medieval churches are remaining as, like all wooden buildings, they were susceptible to fire. Indeed, only 16 wooden churches from the 17th century still exist - though it was not uncommon to demolish a wooden ...
Together with Turku Cathedral, the castle is one of the oldest buildings still in use in Finland. It is also the largest surviving medieval building in Finland. It was founded in the late 13th century and stands on the banks of the Aura River. The castle served as a bastion and administrative center in the region of Finland until the early 19th ...
Sodankylä Old Church (also known as the Lapp Church; [1] Finnish: Sodankylän vanha kirkko; Northern Sami: Soađegili boares girku) [2] is a 17th-century wooden church located near the Kitinen River in the Sodankylä municipality in Lapland, Finland. [3] The church is one of the oldest preserved wooden churches in Finland. [4]
It is one of the only medieval towns in Finland. [1] The area of Old Rauma is about 0.3 km 2, with approximately six hundred buildings (counting both proper houses and smaller buildings like sheds) and about 800 people living in the area. [1] The oldest buildings date from the 18th century, as two fires in 1640 and 1682 destroyed much of the town.
Senate Square and its surroundings make up the oldest part of central Helsinki. Landmarks and famous buildings surrounding the square are the Helsinki Cathedral, the Government Palace, the main building of the University of Helsinki and the Sederholm House , the oldest building of central Helsinki dating from 1757. [1]
The interiors of the building were among the most stylish and rich in the city. The inside of the house survived harmful transformations during the Soviet period so the interior decorations were greatly damaged. Between 1910 and 1930 he designed a large number of public buildings and houses, most of which are situated in Viipuri.
The tympanum depicting Alexander I at the 1809 Diet of Finland was sculpted by Emil Wikström. [2] [3] [4] Interior and copy of Walter Runeberg's sculpture Law from the base of his statue of Alexander II. It housed the three commoner estates of the four estates of the realm of Finland (see Diet of Finland); there is a separate House of Nobility.