St. Michael's Church
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St. Michael's Church in Jõhvi is a fortress church first mentioned in connection with the Russian plundering expeditions in 1364. The church was built as a fortress church and surrounded by a moat. The church suffered several times from wars, at the beginning of the Livonian War in 1558 and during the Great Northern War in 1703. Subsequently, the church was given a baroque bell tower in 1728. The present neo-Gothic bell tower dates from 1875.