{"id":8714,"date":"2010-08-01T23:30:16","date_gmt":"2010-08-02T06:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/index.php\/archives\/8714"},"modified":"2010-08-01T23:30:16","modified_gmt":"2010-08-02T06:30:16","slug":"the-churches-of-old-tallinn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/8714","title":{"rendered":"The Churches of Old Tallinn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When approaching Tallinn, Estonia,\u00a0one cannot help but be awed by the sight of this old\u00c2\u00a0fortified city, with church steeples towering overhead. The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is Tallinn&#8217;s Russian Orthodox Cathedral. St. Nicholas&#8217;s Church was built by merchants from the island of Gotland\u00c2\u00a0in the 13th century and is used today as a museum and concert hall. St. Olav&#8217;s Church was, from 1549 to 1625, the tallest building in the world and is currently used as a Baptist church.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tallinn-City-View.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8731\" title=\"Approaching Tallinn\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tallinn-City-View-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Approaching Tallinn\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Approaching Tallinn<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE: Approaching Tallinn (Tallinn, Estonia). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 Jul 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Aleksander-Nevsky-Cathedral.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8733\" title=\"Alexander Nevsky Cathedral\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Aleksander-Nevsky-Cathedral-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Alexander Nevsky Cathedral\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>Alexander Nevsky Cathedral<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0Alexander Nevsky Cathedral (Tallinn, Estonia). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 Jul 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tallinn-St-Nicholas-Church.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8735\" title=\"St. Nicholas' Church\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tallinn-St-Nicholas-Church-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"St. Nicholas' Church\" width=\"327\" height=\"491\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>St. Nicholas&#8217;s Church<\/em><\/p>\n<p>SOURCE:\u00a0St. Nicholas&#8217;s Church (Tallinn, Estonia). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 Jul 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tallinn-St-Olavs-Church.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-8736\" title=\"St. Olav's Church\" src=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/08\/Tallinn-St-Olavs-Church-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"St. Olav's Church\" width=\"491\" height=\"327\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em>St. Olav&#8217;s Church<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">SOURCE:\u00a0St .\u00a0Olav&#8217;s Church (Tallinn, Estonia). Photographed by Stephen J. Danko on 30 Jul 2010.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Copyright \u00a9 2010 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When approaching Tallinn, Estonia, one cannot help but be awed by the sight of this old fortified city, with church steeples towering overhead. The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral is Tallinn&#8217;s Russian Orthodox Cathedral. St. Nicholas&#8217;s Church was built by merchants from the island of Gotland in the 13th century and is used today as a museum and concert hall. St. Olav&#8217;s Church was, from 1549 to 1625, the tallest building in the world and is currently used as a Baptist church. <a href=\"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/8714\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[166,243],"class_list":["post-8714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-journal","tag-baltic-vacation","tag-tallinn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pyBfX-2gy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephendanko.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}