Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

This is the only active Orthodox church in Hiiumaa. It was built by the men from Saaremaa in 1890. The yellow bricks they used were brought from Riga by oxen and over the frozen sea. Before Kuriste had its own church the ceremonies were held in th...

The Häädemeeste church of the Transfiguration of the Lord was built in 1872. It is a church with a stucco decorations amidst the greenery of the trees (architect A. Edelson). The iconostasis in the church comes from the same period as the building.

Orthodox activity was there already during the very beginning of the Christianisation of Estonians. In the 19th century many choose it in the hope of getting aworded for being in the right religion, the czar’s religion. Overcrowdedness is the r...