St Catherine’s Lutheran Church in Võru was built in 1793. The pastorate of the church houses a museum of brothers Kriisa, famous Estonian organ builders. The Museum is open every Wednesday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. The museum also features a coll...
Building of the St Catherine’s Orthodox Church in Võru began in 1793. It is an early neo-classical church (architect Matthias Schons) with numerous icons and a beautiful iconostasis from the early 19th century.
A baroque church built by Count Karl Mellin in 1777 and rebuilt in a somewhat pseudo-gothic style in 1863. The ornament of the simple interior is the pulpit-altar with paintings and carvings (XVII-XVIII), which is one of its kind in Estonia.
This stone and brick pseudo-Gothic church was built in 1893. Altar painting ”Save me, O Lord” was created by the well-known Baltic German artist Rudolf Julius von zur Mühlen. The old altar painting ”Christ on the cross” from the wooden church preceding...
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