Turku Cathedral

Turku Cathedral is the past catholic house of God of Finland, today the Mother Church of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland. It is the focal church of the Lutheran Archdiocese of Turku and the seat of the Lutheran Archbishop of Finland, Kari Makinen. It is additionally viewed as one of the real records of Finnish compositional history.

Viewed as the most significant religious structure in Finland, the house of prayer has borne observer to numerous significant occasions in the country's history and has turned out to be one of the city's most unmistakable images. The basilica is arranged in the core of Turku alongside the Old Great Square, by the stream Aura. Its quality stretches out past the neighborhood region by having the sound of its ringers tolling around early afternoon communicate on national radio. It is likewise integral to Finland's yearly Christmas festivities.

The church building was initially worked out of wood in the late 13th century, and was committed as the fundamental house of prayer of Finland in 1300, the seat of the Catholic minister of Turku. It was extensively extended in the 14th and 15th centuries, predominantly utilizing stone as the development material. The house of God was badly harmed amid the Great Fire of Turku in 1827, and was reconstructed, as it were, a short time later.