Abstract
SummaryThe monuments and political sites of memories always become targets when politics change: the preservation or destruction of memory is invariably an issue of power. This issue is also related to the contemporary politics of state identities and multiculturalism. This article discusses the role of the ecclesiastical architecture and material culture of the Orthodox Church in Finland and its connections with defining national culture. This is an issue of history policy and the control of memory and the past that has been applied for decades. How was Geschichtskultur, historical culture,1 modelled for national Finnish art, and how conscious was this process? The art and monuments of the Orthodox Church in Finland have not been included in the story of Finnish art, even though the Orthodox faith has had the official status of a state or national religion since the beginning of Finnish independence.
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