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The nearly 200-year old Lapinlahti (Helsinki Finland) hospital was built in 1841 on the orders of the Russian Czar as Finland’s first specialised psychiatric hospital.
The hospital is also the birthplace of the Finnish Mental Health Association.
The main building, designed by Carl Ludvig Engel served as a hospital until 2007, when the City of Helsinki decided that it had become too old and no longer suitable for its original purpose. The last inmates of the house were evacuated from the building in 2008 after the polyclinic for eating disorders was moved to the Psychiatric Centre of the Helsinki University Teaching Hospital, the former Hesperia Hospital.


Lapinlahden sairaala on Suomen ensimmäinen mielisairaalakäyttöön valmistunut sairaala ja on Euroopan vanhimpia psykiatrista hoitoa varten rakennettuja hoitolaitoksia. Se sijaitsee Helsingissä Lapinlahden osa-alueella meren rannalla Hietaniemen hautausmaan läheisyydessä.