St. Nicholas Church in Joensuu

In the center of Joensuuu is Kirkkokatu Street (Church). It passes between its two main churches – the Orthodox wooden church of St. Nicholas in the north and the Evangelical Lutheran church in the south.

The Orthodox Church of St. Nicholas is a small wooden church built in 1887. Its most significant part is the iconostasis, which was painted in St. Petersburg, in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. The Orthodox parish is the second largest in Finland after the Orthodox parish of Helsinki.

The church is open for viewing from Monday to Friday from 10 to 16 hours, on Saturdays and Sundays services are held.