Saturday, 19/03/2011
This weekend we went to check out the chapel that I wanted to see for a very long time now. It is situated on the Hirvensalo island, you can check it out on the map here. There was a very nice lady who gave us some insight to the history of the chapel. It was a priest and artist, Hannu Konola, who came up with the idea to combine a place of worship with a place of art. His dream came true in 1996, when an architectural competition took place to design this unique place. A young architect, Matti Sanaksenaho (Sanaksenaho Architects website) won the competition with his extraordinarily-shaped building, which is somehow between the shape of a boat upside down and a whale. For years money was collected from donations, and finally in 2003 construction began. In 2005 the building was finished, and the inauguration took place.
The exterior of the building is covered with metal sheets, the interior however is made completely of wood. Natural light enters the building from the two ends. The glass-work visible on the picture below is the work of Hannu Konola himself.
from the outside
from the inside
glass-work
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