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The old church of Kempele

  • Piriläntie 190, 90440 Kempele, Finlandia
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Luoghi religiosi
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The old church of Kempele, which was built between 1688 and 1691, is one of the oldest wooden churches in Finland. Kempele was granted the right to build a prayer room in 1688, but parishioners decided to construct a church with a steeple. Given the custom of burying local notables under the church, there are about 150 graves in the crypt, the last of them dating from 1796. The church includes decorations by the noted Finnish painter Mikael Toppelius. The old church ceased to be in active use after a new church was built next to it in the 1990s, but some events are still held in it from time to time. Kempele may be best known for being the headquarters of the world-famous heart rate monitor corporation Polar Electro, which first brought the device to market in 1978.

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