The city received its own church for the first time in 1655. Prior to that, the city’s inhabitants attended services at Kaarlela church in Kirkonmäki. The first wooden church was pulled down to make way for a new, larger one in 1876. The new cruciform wooden church was completed in 1877 but was destroyed in a fire on the feast of Epiphany (6th January) 1958. The current church, which was designed by modern architect Aarne Nuortila, was completed in 1960.
The Old Customs Road