St. Peter and St. Paul's Cathedral, Tallinn

St. Peter and Paul is the Roman Catholic parish church in the center of the Estonian capital, Tallinn, and the seat of the Apostolic Administrator of Estonia. It was built in 1841 to designs by Carlo Rossi and was ordained on December 26, 1845.

History

Since the Reformation, there were no Catholic churches in Estonia more. 1799 mainly Polish Catholics in Tallinn the refectory of the former Dominican monastery of St. Catherine was left as a worship space. After the congregation had grown to more than 1,500 members, the rebuilding of the monastery began in the church today. The facade was completed only in 1920 to today's shape after a system modeled it lower convent building had been demolished.

1924, the Apostolic Administration was built for the independent Estonia since 1918. The line was initially perceived by Antonino Zecchini from Riga. Pastor in Tallinn in 1930 the German Jesuit Edward Profittlich who promoted with great dedication Catholic life in Estonia and also acted in the public. In 1931 he was appointed Apostolic Administrator and consecrated in St. Peter and Paul on December 27, 1936 Titular Archbishop. Thus, the parish church was given the rank of a Prokathedrale.

1940 Estonia was occupied as a result of the Hitler -Stalin Pact of Soviet troops. Bishop Profittlich was arrested in 1941 and died in 1942 in the camp Kirov. His appointed successor Henri Werling was deported in 1945. By the end of Stalinism mid-1950s, the Church's work in Tallinn, within concealed was possible. 1952-1987 Miķelis Krumpāns was pastor at St. Peter and Paul. With perestroika, a new period began. Several religious orders founded branches in Tallinn. 1992 Apostolic Administrator was appointed with Justo García Mullor again. In September 1993 Pope John Paul II Estonia. The Peter and Paul's Church was renovated in 1992 and 2002/ 03 and re-equipped.

Architecture and Facilities

The church is a simple three-nave basilica just closed with neo-Gothic nave and classical twin-tower facade. It is white on the outside, the inside plastered bright yellow and white. The neo-Gothic wood trim was eliminated in 1938. Get remained the Assumption picture by Guido Reni on the altar wall, a gift from Ludwig I of Bavaria, and the statues of Peter and Paul church patrons of Robert Johann Salemann. The present altar and ambo gray dolomite were created in 2002. The organ is a work from August Terkmann from the year 1913.