Church of Liminka

Church of Liminka

The present church in Liminka was built in 1826. This wooden church is the fifth church of the parish. It's style is Empire. The church was designed by A.W.Arppe, A.F.Gransted and C.G.Engel. It was made by the famous Finnish master builder Heikki Kuorikoski. The belltower was made and planned by Gerls Norling in the northern Renaissance style in 1733.
	Liminka Church

On the 29th December in 1807 a parish meeting was held. People decided to build a new church because the old one had badly rotted and it was in such bad contition that it would have been useless to repair it. They decided to use some of the matherials from the previous church when they started to build the new one. In those days all the public buildings had to be built of stone. The reason was that they wanted to reduce fires and they also wanted to build all the buildings and statues in the kingdom with good taste. In the meeting they also decided that they would start to build a new church in a couple of years. And the new church would be done in the autumn in 1822. They decided to build the new church on the northern side of the old churchyard. When they started to make a thorough examination of the ground they noticed that the ground was too soft, and it would have been impossible to build a heavy stone church to Liminka. So they had to make a decision to build a wooden church.


The 21 m. high bell tower. New bells were bought in 1922. Nowadays the bells are automated	The old bell of the belltower.

The Liminka church has the form of a cross. The altar lies in the east part of the church and behind it there is a warehouse and sacristy. People come into the church from the west side. And there are warehouses also behind the north and south side. The altar "Christ glori" was painted by Oskar Nylander in 1849. The other paintings of the church were painted by Petter Bergström in 1741.

The pulpit which is made by Johan Kynzell in 1727. Paintings are made by Olof Eklund. Pictures show right to left: 1. Matthew with his angels 2. Marcus with his Lion 3. Jesus in his gray costume on a blue cloud 4. Luke with his bulls 5. John with his eagles

These paintings were found under the floor when the church was renovated in the 1950´s. The pulpit is from the old church and it was made by a famous carperter Johan Kynzell in 1727. Decoration paintings are made by Olof Ekelund. The church organs were renewed in 1971. There is room for about 800 people in the chuch. The Liminka church has a large collection of different church objects for example; silver objects, paintings, sculptures, candlesticks and so on.

The organ loft and the altar, whose painting "Christ glory" is made by Oskar Nylander in 1849