Nurmijärvi (village)

'Nurmijärvi church village') is the administrative center of the Nurmijärvi municipality in Uusimaa, Finland.

[3] The largest industrial and business area in the municipality, Ilvesvuori, is being built near the center by the Tampere Highway (E12),[2] and a large logistics center owned by Kesko is being built there, among other things.

[10][11] There is also Finland's only Erätukku, a store specializing in wilderness, hiking and fishing equipment, which reopened in 2018 with the help of a new owner.

[13] On Aleksis Kiven tie street is the Nurmijärvi Church (1793), the cemetery, the old rectory called Lukkarila, and Mäntylä, the house of Malakias Costiander, the first schoolmaster of Nurmijärvi and a teacher of Aleksis Kivi.

[14] Near the church was the first pharmaceutical factory in Finland, founded by Albin Koponen.

Nurmijärvi Museum Coffeehouse ( Nurmijärven museokahvila ), a local museum and former parish warehouse right next to the Nurmijärvi Church