Estonia Theatre

The original Estonia Theatre building was designed in Jugendstil by Finnish architects Armas Lindgren and Wivi Lönn, and constructed between 1911 and 1913 on the initiative of the Estonia Society, with popular effort and widespread financial support from the Estonian people.

The theatre building was extensively damaged by fire in the Soviet aerial bombing raid on Tallinn on 9 March 1944.

It was reconstructed in a classical style, with additional elements of Stalinist architecture, and reopened to the public in 1947.

[citation needed] Starting from 1946, the building also housed the premises of the newly created Tallinn Ballet School.

The Congress disbanded itself after the independent Republic of Estonia had been restored in 1991, when a new parliament had been elected in September 1992.