Charles's Church, Tallinn

In 1670, during the time of Swedish rule, the Swedish King Charles XI commissioned the construction of a church on the site, for the use of the Estonian and Finnish population of Tallinn (as opposed to the Baltic German population).

In 1710, during the Great Northern War, this first wooden church was burnt down.

Donations of money were started in the 1850s, and the cornerstone of the new church was laid in 1862.

[3] The church is designed in the tradition of Western European cathedrals, with two western towers flanking a rose window, and built in a Romanesque Revival style.

The church has a Latin cross plan, and is in effect a hall church, the ceiling being held aloft without the use of pillars (according to a solution thought out by Hippius in collaboration with Rudolf von Bernhardt).