Turkansaari

The Turkansaari Open-Air Museum consists over 40 museum buildings. The buildings include for example a church built in 1694 and the old country manor house of Ylikärppä, completed in 1894. In Turkansaari, you can see the old trades that the region’s economy used to revolve around, including tar-making, salmon fishing, lumbering and log floating.

Turkansaari church was built as the chapel in 1694. At that time Turkka Island was a bustling marketplace for Oulu River. The island, however, lost its position as a marketplace and the market ran out of grip in the 1700s. Been abandoned for a long time the church was demolished and sold to be used as the fishermen warehouse in 1814.

Local inhabitant Östen Elfving bought the church in the early 1920s. The church was moved back to its original position in Turkka Island in 1922. Because the original interior was not preserved, Turkansaari church was restored using parts from the other equivalent small churches built in the 17th century. The front door is from the Enontekiö Markkina church. The pulpit is a model copied from the old church of Sodankylä.

Address

Turkansaarentie 167, Oulu, Finland

Details

Founded: 1922
Category: Museums in Finland
Historical period: Independency (Finland)