Church or chapel
Jüri Church
German: Sankt Jürgens
Jüri church stands on the site of the Vaskjala church, built in 1220–1227 as one of the first churches in northern Estonia. In August 1884 the crumbling medieval church was torn down to its foundations without even being measured; only an amateur's detailed drawing shows it had a rare three-bay nave and a square gable tower. The present neo-Gothic church by Friedrich Axel von Howen was built on the old foundations and consecrated on 15 December 1885, with hanging timber vaults copied from English Tudor style. In the 1930s–40s its interior was painted roughly in the colours of the Estonian flag: blue ceiling, white walls, near-black pews.
Open it on the map See the spot on the old maps and as it is today
Eesti keeles
Jüri kirik seisab 1220–1227 ehitatud Vaskjala kiriku – ühe Põhja-Eesti esimese kiriku – kohal. 1884. aasta augustis lammutati lagunev keskaegne kirik vundamendini, ilma et seda oleks isegi üles mõõdetud; vaid ühe asjaarmastaja täpne joonistus näitab, et sel oli Harjumaal haruldane kolmetraveeline pikihoone ja nelinurkne viilutorn. Friedrich Axel von Howeni projekteeritud uusgooti kirik ehitati vanale vundamendile ja pühitseti 15. detsembril 1885; selle puidust rippvõlvid jäljendavad Inglise tuudorstiili. 1930.–1940. aastatel värviti interjöör ligikaudu Eesti lipu värvidesse: sinine lagi, valged seinad ja peaaegu mustad pingid.