26 May 2007

Kuidas elad, Matsalu? My Churches



1&2. St. Elizabeth's Lutheran Church in Lihula (population 1,614). Its church bell is from 1745 and organ from 1845.

3&4. St. Nicholaus Church in Kirbla (population 278), the smallest stone church in Estonia, is 11m wide and 28.9m high, and its moss-covered graveyard.

5-7. The former Russian Orthodox church in Kõmsi (population 172).

8-10. 13th century St. Paul's Chuch in Hanila (population 48), its altar and pulpit, and its graveyard.