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TEMPPELIAUKIO CHURCH (ROCK CHURCH), Helsinki Finland

This church was excavated into the granite bedrock and completed in 1969. The elliptical church is roofed by a 13m-high and 24m-diameter copper dome (requiring 22km of copper tape). Light enters from narrow skylights between the rock wall and the dome. The 5-9m high excavation wall surface with blasting marks left rough for acoustic and aesthetic reasons. The altar wall is a split in the rock dating to the Ice Age. The altar table is granite, the floor polished concrete and the pulpit reinforced concrete. There are no bells but a chime melody played through loudspeakers.
Wow, what a spectacular place. The walls are extremely rough and topped by a short wall of excavated rock on which the dome sits. There is a small balcony with more pews. The pews have taupe padded seats.

 

 

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I would like to think of myself as a full time traveler. I have been retired since 2006 and in that time have traveled every winter for four to seven months. The months that I am "home", are often also spent on the road, hiking or kayaking. I hope to present a website that describes my travel along with my hiking and sea kayaking experiences.

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