Tampere, Finland
1890
Tampere, Finland
1883-1885
Tampere, Finland
Museum founded in 1993
Tampere, Finland
1820-1920
Tampere, Finland
1946
Tampere, Finland
1902-1907
Tampere, Finland
1510-1530
Tampere, Finland
1898
Tampere, Finland
1880-1970s
Tampere, Finland
1880-1881
Tampere, Finland
1906
Tampere, Finland
1964-1966
Tampere, Finland
1900s
Visby Cathedral (also known as St. Mary’s Church) is the only survived medieval church in Visby. It was originally built for German merchants and inaugurated in 1225. Around the year 1350 the church was enlarged and converted into a basilica. The two-storey magazine was also added then above the nave as a warehouse for merchants.
Following the Reformation, the church was transformed into a parish church for the town of Visby. All other churches were abandoned. Shortly after the Reformation, in 1572, Gotland was made into its own Diocese, and the church designated its cathedral.
There is not much left of the original interior. The font is made of local red marble in the 13th century. The pulpit was made in Lübeck in 1684. There are 400 graves under the church floor.