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Helsinki

The cathedral is the Finnish Evangelical Lutheran cathedral of the Diocese of Helsinki, located in the centre of Helsinki, Finland and was also known as St Nicholas’s Church until Finnish independence in 1917.

A notable neoclassical landmark in Helsinki, the building features a tall, green dome encircled by four smaller ones. Designed by Carl Ludvig Engel as the centrepiece of his Senate Square layout, it is surrounded by other smaller structures he created. The church’s design is a Greek cross, symmetrical in all directions, with each arm adorned with a colonnade and pediment. Engel’s plan included an additional row of columns at the western end for the main entrance, but this was never realised.

This cathedral was officially inaugurated on 15 February 1852. Dedicated to St Nicholas it is found in what Nordic capital city?

The answer will be posted later today.