{"id":1784,"date":"2009-06-22T21:58:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-22T21:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/2009\/06\/helsinki-the-church-in-the-rock\/"},"modified":"2009-06-22T21:58:08","modified_gmt":"2009-06-22T21:58:08","slug":"helsinki-the-church-in-the-rock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/?p=1784","title":{"rendered":"Helsinki: The Church in the Rock"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>We recently spent a very nice 24 hours in Helsinki, Finland before crossing the strait to Tallinn, Estonia. Helsinki is quite a modern city and its delights are subtle. We very nearly didn&#39;t go to the Church in the Rock, having failed to realise that it&#39;s one of the top tourist attractions. You wouldn&#39;t know it from the humble location in the middle of a rather nondescript residential area.<\/div>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340115714115f7970b\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HelsinkiChurchRock3 7398\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e015888340115714115f7970b \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340115714115f7970b-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div>Built in the late 1960s the church is sunk into the bedrock with just a domed roof poking above the natural lie of the land. It&#39;s really not much to look at from the outside, but internally it&#39;s a symphony of modernist concrete, rough-hewn stone, glass, wood and polished copper. It really speaks craftsmanship and slightly old fashioned Scandinavian design. It also has fantastic acoustics &#8211; there was a woman playing a grand piano as we wandered around, which just set it all off perfectly.<\/div>\n<p>&#0160;<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340115704bf8fb970c\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HelsinkiChurchRock2 7397\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e015888340115704bf8fb970c \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340115704bf8fb970c-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340115704bf93a970c\" onclick=\"window.open( this.href, &#39;_blank&#39;, &#39;width=640,height=480,scrollbars=no,resizable=no,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=no,left=0,top=0&#39; ); return false\" style=\"display: inline;\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"HelsinkiChurchRock1 7396\" class=\"at-xid-6a00e5550e015888340115704bf93a970c \" src=\"http:\/\/justthesam.com\/wp-content\/tp\/6a00e5550e015888340115704bf93a970c-400wi\" style=\"width: 400px;\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently spent a very nice 24 hours in Helsinki, Finland before crossing the strait to Tallinn, Estonia. Helsinki is quite a modern city and its delights are subtle. We very nearly didn&#39;t go to the Church in the Rock, having failed to realise that it&#39;s one of the top tourist attractions. You wouldn&#39;t know [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,20,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-photography","category-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/justthesam.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}