St. Mary's Church

St. Mary's Church is a Lutheran church that was built in 1842. The church burned down during the Second World War in 1941. After the war, it was rebuilt to become a gymnasium of the Estonian Agricultural Academy. In 2009, the building was returned to the congregation of St. Mary of Tartu, who started to restore the church to its old exterior but with a new interior.

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St. Luke's Church

St. Luke's Church in Tartu is a modernist church completed in 2002, designed by architect Indrek Allmann. This church had been planned as early as 1931 by the architect Engelhard Corjus, but due to the Soviet occupation and World War II, the church was never built. The new church was built in two phases. The first was completed with the construction of a small hall, a café and other premises. The second, when a large hall with corresponding auxiliary rooms were added.

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Tartu Cathedral

Tartu Cathedral is a brick Gothic style church founded between the 13th and 16th centuries. Devastated during the Livonia War (1558 - 1583), it was left in a state of ruin and in the 1760s, the high twin towers of the church were demolished. As part of the reconstruction of the University of Tartu in 1804-1807, rooms of the university library were built in the cathedral choir. After the completion of the new university library building in 1981, the University of Tartu Museum moved in.

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St. Paul's Church

St. Paul's Church is an evangelical Lutheran church designed by Finnish architect Eliel Saarinen and built between 1915 and 1917 in the Art Nouveau style, a first in the country. Almost completely destroyed in 1944, the church was restored from 1952 to 1960, but also from 2005 to 2015 after having served as a museum from 1966 to 2005.