St. Michael's Church, Tallinn

For some years during the early 1700s the congregation was therefore without a church until they relocated to the present premises in 1733.

The building they were granted had been part of a medieval almshouse or hospital complex and the interior of the church is to this day dominated by the heavy medieval vaulting.

During the upheavals of World War II and the Soviet occupation of Estonia, most Estonian Swedes fled the country and resettled in Sweden, and the Soviet authorities expropriated the building which was used as a sports club until the restoration of Estonia's independence in 1991.

In 1992, following a state visit by the king of Sweden, the building once more passed into the hands of the Estonian-Swedish congregation.

Apart from the aforementioned Gothic vaulting, the church is notable for its fine baroque altar (artist Joachim Armbrust) and baptistery (artist Christian Ackermann)[1][2][3]