Kuri, Estonia

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Kuri is a village (Estonian küla ) in the rural community Pühalepa ( Pühalepa vald ). It is the second largest Estonian island of Hiiumaa ( German Dagö ), directly on the Baltic coast.

Description

Kuri today has 39 inhabitants ( 31 December 2011). The village is located 12 kilometers southeast of the island's capital Kärdla ( German Kertel ).

Orthodox Church

In the last decades of the 19th century fostered the Tsarist empire his Russifizierungpolitik on Hiiumaa. In the area the propagation of the Orthodox faith has been particularly successful. Between 1885 and 1887 more than one thousand members of the Lutheran church Pühalepa went over to the Russian Orthodox religion.

During this period three new Orthodox churches on the island, one in Kuri. 1889 there the Ascension Church was completed. A year later she consecrated the Russian Orthodox Bishop of Riga. In 1913 the municipality had 1,300 worshipers.

The historicist building was designed by the architects I. Dmitriyevsky and P. Knüpffer. Him crowned five domes and a bell tower. A similarly constructed church is located on Hiiumaa in the village Kuriste.

1952, the church was closed during the Soviet occupation of Estonia. It was then used by the Red Army as a military camp. Today the ruins are still preserved. Orthodox believers are in Kuri no more.

Next to the church, a parish school was built. Also worth seeing is the Orthodox cemetery of Kuri, which today is under the Estonian Apostolic Orthodox Church ( Eesti Kirik Apostlik Õigeusu ).