Pühalepa Church

Western Estonia & the Islands


Hiiumaa’s oldest stone church, founded by the German Livonian Order in the 13th century, is worth visiting if driving through sleepy Suuremõisa, en route to the ferry at Heltermaa. Completed as a simpler fortress-church in the 14th century, its distinctive Lutheran steeple was added in the 18th century.


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