Nukari

The bridge over the rapids called Nukarinkoski (or Pengerkoski) in River Vantaa and the road from Helsinki to Hyvinkää (current MT 45), required constant caretakers in the 1650s.

Burgess Erkki Nukari declared himself a keen bridge guard if he could get space in the nearby forest area.

In 1662, Governor Ernst Johan Creutz granted Erkki Nukar the rights to the wilderness of East Vantaa, the area of the present Nukari village.

The lady found it important that the manor's workers, laborers, and crofters, and above all their children, received instruction and education.

Nukari has also a primary school and a kindergarten, and in the 1980s there were 2 village shops, a bank, a post office and a hairdressing salon.

[5] In 2020, a new fine ceremony house was completed, which can accommodate 250 people,[6] and in 2021, two bhikkhus (monks) and one novice will live in the Buddharama temple.