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Tampere
Helsinki
Kuopio
Siilinjärvi
Lahti
Vaasa
Kouvola
Järvenpää
Espoo
Klaukkala
darthbiscuit
And the best part is they are all PokeStops!
Turfyboo
The last one's pretty cool
affib
usernamesarenotcomments
Jyväskylä: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5b/Kortepohja_church_Finland_20090401.JPG
Pesukone
I thought you weren't gonna post Klaukkala but there it was at the very end in all its beauty.
thomaselvidge
They look like prisons.
the12thletter
"Noone's gonna burn THESE babies down!"
jaijaikali
None of these are remotely beautiful
NipplesTheEnchiIada
Finland has a lot of concrete buildings. Look nice new, but after a few years it gives off a dilapidated USSR vibe.
garbagefart
Where's lakeuden risti?
MkaysarebadDrugs
Varmaa vielä seinäjoella
SIDSOS
I'm afraid they'll build a monstrosity like this in Ylivieska since our 200 year old wooden church was burned...
BasisPoints
#5 don't lie to me, that's a jail in downtown Chicago
Haitchpeasauce
What a beautiful prison!
proamateur
Another work of art from Tampere http://www.rakennusfakta.fi/14/architectobject/01/31/36/hervannan_kirkko.jpg
turdly
Bauhaus of God
lospaturno
"I prefer the wooden ones." - Varg Vikernes
catamaphone
Did you guys get forced to join christianity or something?
JarnoYltv
Yeah and it took 3 crusades for the swedes to understand that they cant leave their priests with us without guards.
HerKurg
Actually, yes. Swedes made 1st crusade circa 1100AD and at least 2 more later. Of course the real reason was to rob locals but with excuse..
StonesOnTheHill
There are few Finnish Christians, but they are ruthlessly productive, assembling ~70 more Faith per hour/faithful than the average Christian
demirael
#civthings?
Haitchpeasauce
Amongst our weaponry are such elements as fear, surprise, ruthless efficiency, an almost fanatical devotion to the Pope...
Haitchpeasauce
... and nice red uniforms - oh DAMN!
TingeltangelTom
At least they're Varg-proof.
Obersturmgruppenfuhrer
http://www.metaltalk.net/images4/varg_vikernes.jpg
ShareeGolar78
EsPOO! HA!
Atomilehma
You should add the Kuokkala Temple of Nod. I feel like it would belong.
keksitse
We call these "Devil repellent bunkers"
flotiball
Oh, the good old piruntorjuntabunkkeri!
dannicusrex
Would these be considered Brutalist?
Snarkoleptic
Yes. And, of course, that implies them being very ugly.
DavidBrooker
Some are brutalist, but others are functionalist. I think a few you could call mid-century modern.
ElBivo
Couple of them, for sure.
haitekki
1/2 After the WW2 Evangelical Lutheran Church of Finland felt that grand cathedrals of old alienate common churchgoer from the clergy and...
haitekki
2/2 ...the message of God. So the post-war churches of urban areas tend to look like office buildings and other common cement blocks.
rando84
Now people attending these churches just feel alienated from everything else.
Snarkoleptic
Went to St. Albans Cathedral yesterday, they were playing the organ. I got chills, and I'm a staunch atheist. These are just depressing.
Myoldaccountgotdeleted
These are also in Tampere![]()
mrui
This is also in Tampere
Myoldaccountgotdeleted
haha jep :D
KuistiPanu
Ah, Herwood <3
ObviouslyNotDitto
I don't know if you can tell from the churches, but religion isn't really that big in Finland...
DataBender
Not my family. My aunt takes the bible as literal truth.
ObviouslyNotDitto
Also heres the Tampere church from above
ACanadianPerson
They need a better cutting tool
HarryDresdenIsMySpiritAnimal
I wish it wasn't quite so big here in the US. It has gotten to the point that if someone says the word "God" or "Jesus" to me then 1/
HarryDresdenIsMySpiritAnimal
2/ I immediately think they are trying to scam money off of me. Post-Katrina constructions companies all giving themselves religiously- 2/
HarryDresdenIsMySpiritAnimal
3/ themed names didn't help when most of them ended up disappearing as soon as they got a check. If you have to "tell" me you are 3/
HarryDresdenIsMySpiritAnimal
4/ Christian, rather than just letting your actions make it apparent, then I'm probably going to think you're a fraud.
annoyingjoe
We pray to the God of Cement
RevengeByAnyOtherNameIsNotAsSweet
I pray to the god of meat.
CthulhuPanda
What has hardened may never dry.
hjf2011
Brutal... ist.
temotodochi
The last one is actually copper coated. Was funny to look at before the copper tarnished.
Error10054
It's hard to burn cement
TheSkullAndy
he picked the "modern churches", we have plenty of old ones from wood and hewn stone
wenoc
And cubism.
DDAGuy
Sorry I'm gonna be that guy. Cement is the adhesive that holds concrete together. It's a fine material that reacts with water to harden.
annoyingjoe
no apologies for spreading the knowledge. I, too, am a stickler for details and thus feel great shame.
ChicksDigTrucks
+1 to you. Calling concrete cement is like calling a cake a flour.
Snarkoleptic
But you could say "we pray to the god of flour" whilst eating cake
JakeHawke
Look... they're interesting, but this is some definition of beautiful with which I am not familiar. :/
iwasmadetobelievetherewouldbeflan
Beautiful doesn't always mean ornate
Nubsva
Yeah, missing the best ones /a/w2Pb2
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Nubsva
You want untraditional churches? Check this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temppeliaukio_Church
kishinlemming
Kolmen ristin kirkko. Nuff said.
varsipieru
This type of architecture is called concrete brutalism. I suppose we picked it up from the Soviet Union.
ShamrockFury
Finland, where you have a 50% chance of finding christ, 50% chance of being processed and deported, and 50% chance of raving your nuts off
lospaturno
gonna say "but it's 150%" but I can't question god's will.
bisqwit
Many of these things can happen to the same person.
lospaturno
are you questioning god's will?
BobDresden
Your churches look like zombie survival shelters.
JarnoYltv
There's a reason we call them "Counter-devil bunkers".
villlllle
We call them Devil repellant bunkers.
demirael
And bunkers they are, esp. #6 and #8. :P
temotodochi
Well, in finland every apartment or office building has one or more bomb shelters built under it. We love to be next to russia.
DiamonDie
Well, that's what churches kinda are?
Ooolovelyjubbly
First thing I thought too, might have to start going to church
bleh64
It's called being prepared. They teach this one dead guy will come back to roam the Earth after all.
njullpointer
they're reinforced incase the unknown enemy from the east should, you know, invade, with all their tanks.
Necromartian
Or from the west! The Ruskies could do the hook maneuver and attack from Sweden
ThreeDimesDown
Well.... yeah.
meccit
Zombie Jesus can't disagree...
demirael
Jesus was actually a lich.
torillatavataan
And what exactly do _you_ use your churches for? Hiding from the taxman?
KuistiPanu
Well the protestant church lives by idea of simplicity and humility, and that translates into functional architecture... And cheap
BobDresden
Well, *I* don't use churches except when they happen to be ingress portals or pokestops.
ctzn07
might aswell be, according to wikipedia "24.3% - No religious affiliation"
Francobabby
All the best countries are so cold :(
kishinlemming
I'd say about 10% of Finns are truly religious and the rest are church members just for their own weddings and funerals.