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In the 19th century, reconstruction plans were put forward. Donations of money were started in the 1850s, and the cornerstone of the new church was laid in 1862. The church, still incomplete, was inaugurated in 1870. The two towers on the west side were enlarged in 1882.
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Tallinn Neil Taylor - 2007 - Page 151 CHARLES'S CHURCH "This massive and austere late 19th-century limestone building seats 1,500 people ... original wooden church built in the late 17th-century"
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commissioned the construction of a church on the site, for the use of the Estonian and Finnish population of Tallinn (as opposed to the
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Tõnismägi hill has been the location of a chapel probably since the 14th century. In 1670, during the time of
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The church is designed in the tradition of Western European cathedrals, with two western towers flanking a
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population). The church was named after the king. In 1710, during the
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style. The church has a Latin cross plan, and is in effect a
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Estonian
Lutheran
Tallinn
Estonia
Otto Pius Hippius
Swedish rule
Charles XI
Baltic German
Great Northern War
rose window
Romanesque Revival
hall church
apse
Johann Köler
Stockholm
"St. Charles's Church (Kaarli kirik)"
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Charles's Church, Tallinn
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