A Pictorial Window for the Repaired Church

The stained-glass window in the chancel was donated by Maria Ekman, the wife of a consul, the year after the fire, i.e. 1894. The pilgrim-motif glass painting is probably German, but the name of the artist remains a mystery. According to tradition, the angels in the painting were modelled after Maria Ekman’s cousins, who drowned at a young age.

  The smaller painting above the altar, a copy of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Last Supper”, probably by R. W. Ekman, was donated in 1853 by the owner of Herttoniemi Manor, Johan Abraham Stjernschantz and his wife, Hedvig Charlotta Cronstedt.

  The Baroque chandeliers are both donations. The older of the two, donated by the owner of Westerkulla Manor, Major Heinrich Johan Wunsch, is from the middle of the 17th century.

  The other chandelier was donated in 1744 by the owner of Puotila Cavalry Estate, Alderman Georg Wilhelm Clayhils and his wife Anna Margaretha Hochschildt.

  Chandeliers, a few sconces and altar candelabra notwithstanding, the interior of the church remained quite dark throughout the 17th and 18th centuries. The need for better lighting grew as more and more parishioners were becoming literate and hymnbooks were taken into use in congregational singing. Improvements took place particularly in the late 19th century, when the church bought 30 brass sconces and 73 branched candleholders.