Kalevala House

[1][2][3] Additionally, the crypt beneath the foot of the 80-meter-high main tower was to serve as a burial place for notable Finnish figures and Fennomen.

It culminated in the construction project of the huge Kalevala House, the "Finnish Panthéon", during the interwar period.

[4] Its altar would have been the Great Kalevala, a monumental giant book commissioned from Akseli Gallen-Kallela, each page of which would have been a magnificent painting.

[1][6] Eliel Saarinen, a prominent architect of the National Romantic period, drew up the magnificent plans for the Kalevala House in 1921.

At that time, Alpo Sailo commented on the house: Absolutely no functionalism (...), it must be a Finnish building in all respects.

The Kalevala house, which rises to a height of more than 80 meters, was to be located in Munkkiniemi, where Sigurd Stenius, the owner of the area, had already promised it a plot of land.