St. Mary's Church

About

The classical St. Mary's Church was built in 1842 to be the church of city of Tartu and the Estonians in the parish. Here the music activist, organiser of the song festival and writer Adalbert Hugo Willigerode worked, also the parish clerk Juhan Kurrik, who put together the first Estonian physical education book, minister Aksel Erich Vooremaa, who died as a martyr and many others. There was a fire on June 12, 1941 and later the Estonian Academy of Agriculture used it as a gym. The building was returned to the congregation only in 2009 and the restoration of the building as a church has now began. The outside of the church will be restored as it was before and a modern church and congregation centre will be built inside.