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✅The Temppeliaukion Church, also known as the Rock Church or Church of the Rock, is one of Helsinki’s smallest but most popular sites. Here is how the church and concert venue, built directly into the natural granite rock, came to be Helsinki’s most unusual church.

The church exterior during winter/ Guillaume Baviere/ Flickr
Plans for a church in what is now the Töölö parish were made as far back as 1906 when Helsinki was being rapidly built up and modernised. Several design contests were held in the 1930s, but no one submitted satisfactory designs. World War II temporarily halted plans and after the war, Finland was deeply in debt and had to focus its efforts on paying off its reparations to the Soviet Union.
After Finland paid off its reparations in 1961, they held another contest. Architect brothers Timo and Tuomo Suomalainen (whose surname fittingly enough literally means ‘Finnish’) won the second contest. They initially feared that using the rocks for walls would be too radical, but they were informed that rocks would made excellent natural acoustics. Their final plan included using the natural rock on the site rather than clear it away and embed the church directly into it with the accompanying parish buildings to the side. They intended to use natural light from a skylight with the ceiling held up by a copper-lined dome and include ducts in the floor to carry away water trickling down the rocks, particularly during snowmelt.


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