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Pyhärannan kirkko

Pyhäranta, Varsinais-Suomi, Finland

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Type
Nationally significant built cultural environment (RKY)
Elements (as the agency lists them)
hautausmaa, kirkko
Character (as the agency lists it)
kirkonkylä
Municipality
Pyhäranta
Region
Varsinais-Suomi
Country
Finland
Coordinates
60.94688, 21.44120
Pin
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RKY number
5148

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Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)

The 1666 map covering this location: "Finlande Septentr.le, et Merid.le, Nylande, et Tavasthus" (Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica)).

Historical maps covering this location

  • 1666 · Finlande Septentr.le, et Merid.le, Nylande, et Tavasthus (Bibliothèque nationale de France (Gallica))

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The Finnish Heritage Agency's description

Pyhärannan kirkko on Varsinais-Suomen keskiaikaisten harmaakivikirkkojen ja 1700-luvun puukirkkojen joukossa harvinainen, useita kirkkoja ja niiden korjauksia 1800- ja 1900-lukujen taitteessa suunnitelleen arkkitehti Josef Stenbäckin kansallisromanttista tyyliä edustava kivikirkko.

Kirkko seisoo Astanmäellä merenlahden ja vanhan sataman vierellä. Se on järjestyksessään seurakunnan kolmas ja sitä ympäröi vanha hautausmaa. Pohjaltaan tasavartiseen ristikirkkoon liittyy luoteiskulmassa kellotorni. Julkisivut ovat harmaata squared rubble -graniittikvaaderia. Päätyjen koristeluun on käytetty punatiiltä. Kirkkosalia kattavat teräsbetoniset tähtiholvit. Alttari sijaitsee pohjoissakarassa. Alttaritaulu sekä alttariseinän lasimaalaus ovat Ilmari Heinosen maalaamat. Alttaritaulun takana on Josef Stenbäckin väliaikaiseksi alttaritauluksi kalkkivärein maalaama Pyhä Ehtoollinen, jäljennös Edvard Gerbhardtin maalauksesta. Kirkkosalin peräseinällä on vanhasta kirkosta siirretty alttaritaulu Viimeinen tuomio 1760-luvulta. Urkujen julkisivu on Stenbäckin suunnittelema.

Laitilaan kuulunut Pyhäranta (aik. Rohdainen) siirrettiin Pyhämaan kappeliksi 1688 ja seurakunnan ensimmäinen kirkko rakennettiin mantereelle 1690-luvulla. Toinen kirkko valmistui samalle paikalle 1758. Pyhäranta erotettiin omaksi seurakunnakseen 1782, jolloin Pyhämaa määrättiin sen kappeliksi.

Pyhärantaan päätettiin rakentaa uusi kirkko kivestä 1898. Arkkitehti Josef Stenbäckiltä tilatut luonnospiirrokset hyväksyttiin 1904-1905 ja kirkko rakennettiin 1907-1909. Edeltänyt kirkko purettiin sen rakentamisen yhteydessä.

Nykyisen nimensä seurakunta sai 1908 samalla kun Pyhämaa erotettiin siitä omaksi seurakunnakseen.

Yrjö Hormia, Pyhämaan-Pyhärannan 300-vuotisvaiheita. Rauma 1939.

Sixten Ringbom, Josef Stenbäck ja kansallinen kiviromantiikka. Taidehistoriallisia tutkimuksia 6. Taidehistorian seura 1982.

Rauno Luttinen, Pyhärannan kirkot. Turku 1985.

English translation (from the Finnish)

The text above is the record as published by the Finnish Heritage Agency (Museovirasto), in Finnish. The English below is a machine translation made by TreeAlive, not by the Finnish Heritage Agency (Museovirasto); it has not been checked by a person. Where the two differ, the original is the record. Report a translation error: privacy@treealive.com

The church of Pyhäranta is rare among the medieval grey stone churches and the 18th-century wooden churches of Finland Proper: it is a stone church representing the national romantic style of architect Josef Stenbäck, who designed several churches and their repairs at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

The church stands on Astanmäki hill beside the bay and the old harbour. It is the parish's third church in sequence, and it is surrounded by an old cemetery. An equal-armed cross church in plan is joined at its northwest corner by a bell tower. The façades are of grey squared rubble granite. Red brick has been used for the decoration of the gables. The church hall is covered by reinforced concrete star vaults. The altar is in the north transept. The altarpiece and the stained glass of the altar wall were painted by Ilmari Heinonen. Behind the altarpiece is Holy Communion, painted in lime paint by Josef Stenbäck as a temporary altarpiece, a copy of a painting by Edvard Gerbhardt. On the back wall of the church hall is the altarpiece The Last Judgement from the 1760s, moved from the old church. The organ façade was designed by Stenbäck.

Pyhäranta (formerly Rohdainen), which belonged to Laitila, was transferred to become a chapel of Pyhämaa in 1688, and the parish's first church was built on the mainland in the 1690s. A second church was completed on the same site in 1758. Pyhäranta was separated as a parish in its own right in 1782, when Pyhämaa was assigned to it as a chapel.

It was decided in 1898 to build a new stone church in Pyhäranta. Preliminary drawings commissioned from architect Josef Stenbäck were approved in 1904-1905, and the church was built in 1907-1909. The preceding church was demolished in connection with its construction.

The parish received its present name in 1908, at the same time as Pyhämaa was separated from it as a parish in its own right.

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Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.

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