{"id":602146,"date":"2026-02-11T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.visitharju.ee\/?post_type=visitestonia&#038;p=602146"},"modified":"2026-03-30T08:40:17","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T05:40:17","slug":"st-laurentius-church-on-the-island-of-prangli","status":"publish","type":"visitestonia","link":"https:\/\/www.visitharju.ee\/en\/st-laurentius-church-on-the-island-of-prangli\/","title":{"rendered":"St. Laurentius Church on the island of Prangli"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>St. Laurentius Church on the island of Prangli<\/strong> is one of the smallest Estonian wooden churches that was completed in 1848.<\/p>\n<p>Quite likely, a chapel used to stand on the same spot already a couple of centuries earlier. According to a legend, it was built by Finnish seal hunters who got stranded on the island. A storm had carried them on a block of ice to Prangli island on the feast day of St Lawrence. They determined the spot for constructing the chapel by carrying water in a sieve \u2013 the building was erected on the spot where the sieve was leaking water the best.<\/p>\n<p>A fascinating fact: the walls of the church are covered with wallpaper.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":514169,"parent":0,"template":"","visitestonia-kategooria":[33791,33786],"class_list":["post-602146","visitestonia","type-visitestonia","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","visitestonia-kategooria-architecture-and-history","visitestonia-kategooria-history-culture"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>St. Laurentius Church on the island of Prangli | Visit Harju<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.visitharju.ee\/en\/st-laurentius-church-on-the-island-of-prangli\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"St. Laurentius Church on the island of Prangli | Visit Harju\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"St. Laurentius Church on the island of Prangli is one of the smallest Estonian wooden churches that was completed in 1848. 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