Nagu Church is the old stone landmark of Kyrkbacken, built in the fifteenth century when this island community was already tied into the seafaring world of the Baltic. Its grey walls and simple churchyard give the village a centre that the modern road does not quite manage.
Inside, the church is calm and plain in the Finnish archipelago way. The detail to look for is the eighteenth-century pipe organ by Olof Schwan, a reminder that even remote island parishes were connected to wider Swedish-Finnish craft and music traditions.