Archangel Michael's church
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- Architect
- Lars Sonck
- Completed
- 1899
- Style
- Gothic Revival
Lars Sonck designed the Archangel Michael's Church in 1899, early in a career that would make him the leading figure of Finnish National Romanticism, working here in a rugged Gothic Revival vocabulary of dark granite and steep gables for Turku's Orthodox garrison congregation. Its asymmetric massing and heavy stonework mark a clear departure from the lighter neoclassical Orthodox church Engel had built in the same city seventy years earlier.
