page_title: Finlayson Church
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Finlayson Church / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: Suomi: Finlaysonin kirkko, muistolaatat
context_page_description: The Finlayson Church is a church built in Gothic Revival style located in the Finlayson industrial area in Tampere, Finland. It was built in 1879 as the church of the Finlayson cotton factory, where the factory workers could practice religion. Currently the church belongs to the Evangelical-Lutheran congregations of Tampere, and it is used as a children's road church and a popular church for weddings.
context_section_description: The church was designed by the city architect of Tampere at the time, Frans Ludvig Calonius. The material for the church's facade is clean red brick. It resembles an English congregationalist church in that the preaching chair and the organ are unusually located behind the altar. The church also has no kind of altar table or sculpture whatsoever. The church used to have benches stretching the full width of its hallway, but these were later separated into two parts by a corridor in the middle.
  The church's organ was built by the company William Hill & Son in the 1850, and they were brought to the church from St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1879.
  The church was repaired from September 2007 to late summer 2008. The plank floor was replaced with a plate floor. The church's colour was also changed to a darker shade.
caption: Commemorative plaques for war dead on the wall of the Finlayson church.
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