Churches of Estonia

The church seats 230, with a bell tower thirteen metres high. Construction was aided by private donations and financial support from the local council, which totalled about seven million Estonian crowns (£390,000). It was consecrated on 25 July 2007 and was erected to honour the memory of those who have perished at sea, as well as to serve local people. The two bells are named Memento Mori and Memento Vivere, and the smaller one rings on the quarter hour.

The Chapel of St Laurence (Püha Laurentsiuse kabel) is at Lääneotsa on Prangli Island, which is to the north-east of Tallinn and Viimsi, about ten kilometres off the coast. The cemetery nestles alongside the church, on the southern side of the island. The chapel was built between 1846-1847, by Johan Klamas Rammult Uuetoa and his brother-in-law, Abram S Liljeberg Pirti, who also shipped over houses to build on the island from Sipoo in Finland (on the outskirts of Helsinki).

The wooden chapel apparently opened in 1848. A certain amount of renovation work was carried out in 1860, which is when the weather vane on the bell cote was installed, with the date marked upon it. The chapel of ease (to Viimsi parish) serves over one hundred inhabitants on the island, which also boasts a school and a parish hall (or 'village house'). The island has been inhabited since at least the fourteenth century, but the origin of any earlier inhabitants is unknown.