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There is no data about the first years of the church,\u00a0but in about 1280, a spacious quadrangular chapel that forms the choir room in the present-day church was completed.<br \/><span style=\"line-height: 1.5\">According to the churchwardens&#8217; books from the 15-16th century, the church was quite prosperous, and there were four altars.<\/span><br \/>The visitors will surely be interested in the pseudo-Gothic tower from 1851 (Johann Gottfried Exner), Renaissance and Baroque art, including the reredos and the pulpit, the wheel crosses\u00a0in the churchyard\u00a0and funeral chapels of the local landlords.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.estonia360.ee\/keila\/\" target=\"_blank\">Take a look at the aerial\u00a0photograph<\/a>\u00a0(<em>Joel Tamme<\/em>t)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":512877,"parent":0,"template":"","visitestonia-kategooria":[33791,33786],"class_list":["post-602867","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 v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>St. Michael\u2019s (Miikaeli) Church in Keila | 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:\/\/visitharju.ee\/en\/st-michaels-miikaeli-church-in-keila\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"St. Michael\u2019s (Miikaeli) Church in Keila | Visit Harju\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The construction of the biggest mediaeval country church in Harju County probably started immediately after Northern Estonia had been subjected to the king of Denmark. 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