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St. Olav's Church could also have been presented as a place of worship. This late medieval church was built between 1506 and 1516 on the site of possibly two wooden churches. A fire destroyed the stone church in the 17th century and the wooden parts had to be rebuilt. When a new church was built in the village in 1855, the old stone church remained a deserted church, but was renovated with volunteer work in the 1990s.
1997, just three weeks after the restoration was completed, a burglar visited the church and burned it down. The current form was built between 1997 and 2003 and the volunteer work, again, received national attention and money for the renovation was collected extensively.
The current paintings were commissioned from two artists Osmo Rauhala and Kuutti Lavonen, and it attracted widespread attention at the time for its unconventionality and courage, which may not seem very radical today.
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