Location: Parnu
Top Things to do in Parnu
Top 5 Churches & Cathedrals in Parnu, Parnu County
Pärnu (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈpærˑnu]; German: Pernau) is the fourth-largest city in Estonia. Located in southwestern Estonia on the coast of Pärnu Bay, an inlet of the Gulf of Livonia in the Baltic Sea. It is a popular summer holiday resort with many hotels, restaurants, and large beaches. The Pärnu River flows through the city and drains into the Gulf of Riga. The city is served by Pärnu Airport.
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1. Church of Jekaterina
Overall Ratings
4.0 based on 61 reviews
Completed in 1768, the Church of Jekaterina is the most style pure and ample baroque church in Estonia. The design of facades characteristically for baroque disjunct and relief, the six broaches are finished with slender needle-shaped tips that add lightness and festiveness to the building. Since church is built a century before the majority of orthodox churches, it differs from them from architectural point of view but at the same time it has influenced the development of orthodox church architecture in whole Balticum.Interesting to know!Parnu church of Jekaterina was built by order and with financing of Russian queen Catherine the II.To this day Parnu Russian congregation operates in the church.
Reviewed By PBTravelstheWorld - Woodinville, United States
Nice Baroque church that was open to visit. This church is in keeping with several other architectural feature of this seaside resort that are in the Baroque style. Interesting contrast for a Russian Orthodox Church that is also known as St. Catherine's in the English language literature.
2. Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Parnu Transformation of Our Lord Church
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4.0 based on 34 reviews
Due to the massive religious conversion at the end of the 19th century, the 18th-century Ekateriina's Church became too small for the Parnu orthodox congregation. So, in 1904, the historic Old Russian-style Parnu Transformation of Our Lord Apostolic Orthodox Church was built and its congregation (Estonian) was separated from the former congregation of Ekateriina's congregation (Russian). The church had a typical to that time brick facade and a base of granite ashlar work. The campanile is 38 m high and the cupola 34 m high. The altar wall holds 11 icons and 11 major wall paintings with figurative composition.
3. Eliisabet's Church
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4.0 based on 63 reviews
Eliisabet's Church, inaugurated in 1750, is the most outstanding sacral building of the Baroque period in Estonia. The beautiful church in the centre of Parnu invites you to step in and look around to see a pulpit in the Neo-Gothic style from the middle of the 19th century, the altar and the altarpiece “Resurrection”. One of the best organs in Estonia is in Eliisabet's Church and the place is popular as a concert hall among music lovers.Interesting to know!The church got its name from Russian Empress Jelizaveta thanks to whom the congregation got a Lutheran church.
Reviewed By PBTravelstheWorld - Woodinville, United States
Another of the lovely Baroque building in Parnu built under the Russian Tsar's rule. The building is struggling a bit from needed maintenance, but the inside is lovely with a wooden gallery and roundel stained glass window near the organ pipes. You can see this building from the main shopping/restaurant street in the old town section of Parnu and well worth a quick stop to see this Luthern Church.
