Tourist Attractions & Sightseeing

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...