Harju-Risti

Harju-Risti
Harju-Risti
	Village
	Harju-Risti church
Country	Estonia
County	Harju County
Parish	Lääne-Harju Parish
Time zone	EET (UTC+2)
• Summer (DST)	EEST (UTC+3)

Last updated April 06, 2019

Harju-Risti is a village in Lääne-Harju Parish, Harju County in northern Estonia.

Harju County, or Harjumaa is one of the fifteen counties of Estonia. It is situated in Northern Estonia, on the southern coast of the Gulf of Finland, and borders Lääne-Viru County to the east, Järva County to the southeast, Rapla County to the south, and Lääne County to the southwest. The capital and largest city of Estonia, Tallinn, is situated in Harju County.

Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland with Finland on the other side, to the west by the Baltic Sea with Sweden on the other side, to the south by Latvia (343 km), and to the east by Lake Peipus and Russia (338.6 km). The territory of Estonia consists of a mainland and 2,222 islands in the Baltic Sea, covering a total area of 45,227 km² (17,462 sq mi), water 2,839 km² (1,096 sq mi), land area 42,388 km² (16,366 sq mi), and is influenced by a humid continental climate. The official language of the country, Estonian, is the second most spoken Finnic language.

Harju-Risti Church

The church dedicated to the Holy Cross was founded by the monks of Padise Abbey around 1330 as a chapel. Following the St. George's Night Uprising construction was halted until the early 15th century. During the Livonian War, the church was damaged; however, the greatest threat to the building has been that it stands on unstable ground and has been sinking into the ground. In the 17th century, the ceiling of the choir collapsed, followed by parts of the unusual, round western tower. In this way the church acquired its present oddly-shaped look. The interior of the church as tombstones from the 15th century, a Renaissance pulpit by Tobias Heinze and Estonia's oldest church bell (14th century).^[1]^[2]

Padise Abbey was a former Cistercian monastery in Padise in Harju County, Estonia, settled in 1310 by the dispossessed monks of Dünamünde Abbey in Latvia. It was converted into a fortress after its dissolution in 1559 and later used as a country house until 1766. The ruins are now a museum.

The Livonian War (1558–1583) was fought for control of Old Livonia, when the Tsardom of Russia faced a varying coalition of Denmark–Norway, the Kingdom of Sweden, and the Union of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and the Kingdom of Poland.

Pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church. The origin of the word is the Latin pulpitum. The traditional pulpit is raised well above the surrounding floor for audibility and visibility, accessed by steps, with sides coming to about waist height. From the late medieval period onwards, pulpits have often had a canopy known as the sounding board or abat-voix above and sometimes also behind the speaker, normally in wood. Though sometimes highly decorated, this is not purely decorative, but can have a useful acoustic effect in projecting the preacher's voice to the congregation below. Most pulpits have one or more book-stands for the preacher to rest his or her bible, notes or texts upon.

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References

↑ Viirand, Tiiu (2004). Estonia. Cultural Tourism. Kunst Publishers. p. 43. ISBN 9949-407-18-4.
↑ "Church of the Holy Cross in Risti, Estonia". Visit Estonia. Retrieved 26 January 2012.

Coordinates: 59°14′N24°01′E / 59.233°N 24.017°E / 59.233; 24.017

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[1] Viirand, Tiiu (2004). Estonia. Cultural Tourism. Kunst Publishers. p. 43. ISBN 9949-407-18-4.

[2] "Church of the Holy Cross in Risti, Estonia". Visit Estonia. Retrieved 26 January 2012.

v t e Settlements in Lääne-Harju Parish
Town	Paldiski
Small boroughs	Karjaküla Keila-Joa Klooga Rummu Vasalemma Ämari
Villages	Alliklepa Altküla Audevälja Harju-Risti Hatu Illurma Karilepa Kasepere Keelva Keibu Kersalu Kloogaranna Kobru Kulna Kurkse Kõmmaste Käesalu Laane Langa Laoküla Laulasmaa Lehola Lemmaru Lohusalu Madise Maeru Meremõisa Metslõugu Määra Nahkjala Niitvälja Ohtu Padise Pae Pedase Põllküla Suurküla Tuulna Tõmmiku Valkse Veskiküla Vihterpalu Vilivalla Vintse Änglema