Saint Martin's Church

Beuatiful church in lovely setting.

This is the oldest church in Estonia and you can see that in the architecture. The Romanesques blind arcading across the top of the front and the very thick walls all show building of an earlier time...

Oldest Church in Estonia

St Martin's Church in Valjala is the oldest church in Estonia, built around 1227. It has been enlarged over the years but you can still see murals from the 13th C on the north wall of the choir. Most ...

Everything breathes ancient

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We came here after the Caali crater. A nice place, an old temple. It seems that there is nothing to look at, but we were on the old bench, drinking coffee bought in the shop opposite the temple, and didn't want to leave.There is a ...

Valjala Martini Church

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The oldest stone church in Estonia, construction began in 1227. For centuries the temple was rebuilt repeatedly. It was done in the Gothic-Roman style. The temple is unique in the carving by ...

Traduce history

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It's up to the 13th century and it seems to be the oldest church in Estonia. Simple, austere, gives the feeling of transuding history from every stone, it's a feeling that ...