Lakeuden Risti

Aalto-designed white church and 65-metre tower known as the Cross of the Plains.

Lakeuden Risti, the Cross of the Plains, is the most recognisable part of Seinäjoki's Aalto Centre. The church was built in 1957-1960, and Aalto designed the interior details as well as the building itself.

The tower is the point of the visit if it is open: from above, the flat Southern Ostrobothnian landscape makes the church's name suddenly literal. Even from the ground, the clean white form has a calm authority.

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