Kuusalu Lauritsa Church

Museum address:

Kuusalu tee 27, Kuusalu alevik, Kuusalu rural municipality, Harjumaa, Finland

Free entrance

Accessibility information:

Church in the middle of the village – Kuusalu church is located in the middle of Kuusalu village, the tower is visible from the road. You can get to Kuusalu by car or by bus. From the bus stop in the centre of Kuusalu it is 100 metres to the church gate. You can park your car in the large parking lot in front of the church or in the square in front of the pastorate.

Program

Church open: 18.00 - 23.00

Museum Night programme: 18.30 Opening and presentation of the book exhibition. 18.30 - Opening of the exhibition of Bibles, hymnals and other old clerical books stored in the parish archives and library, including an altar Bible (1773) donated by the Earl of Kolga.

There are guided tours of the church during the day. Organ music during the breaks.

For the night of the museum, altarpieces from the time of the church's construction are on display, and a masonry cupboard in the choir loft, which houses the heart of Count Stenbock, buried in Germany, is open.

The church has many art treasures from different periods: a fragment of a medieval baptismal font, Renaissance and Baroque altarpieces, a Swedish nobleman's Gothenburg tapestry, church textiles, stained-glass windows by contemporary artist Andrei Lobanov, and more.

There is a beautiful park around the church and a pond with a holy spring behind the church. On the other side of the pond is the old parsonage, where Eduard Ahrens (1803-1863), an innovator of the Estonian written language, lived and worked. In front of the pastorate, a memorial to Eduard Ahrens was opened in 2017 (Aivar Simson and Paul Männi).

Website: kuusalu.eelk.ee

Contact: kuusalu@eelk.ee

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