Lakeuden Risti Church

Lakeuden Risti Church is a Lutheran church placed in Seinajoki, Finland. The church become designed by Alvar Aalto and built among 1957–1960. It turned into the first finished building of the bigger administrative and civic middle additionally planned by Aalto, inclusive of Seinäjoki city corridor, a library, a theater and a country office building. The cathedral-like building seats 1200 humans within the hall and 124 within the organ gallery. In the Gesamtkunstwerk spirit Aalto also designed silverware, antependiums, altar cloths and two stained glass paintings for the church.

The cross-fashioned bell tower from which the church gets its call is 65 meters high and a neighborhood landmark. A parish center via Aalto, which includes white one-storey and -storey buildings, become built subsequent to the church in 1964–sixty six. Aalto additionally deliberate the surrounding park. National Board of Antiquities has indexed the church as a nationally giant built historical past website online as part of Aalto's administrative and civic center. Docomomo has additionally decided on the center as a great instance of modern-day structure in Finland. The church turned into blanketed in 2003 by means of a degree from the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland valuable management.