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The 4 oldest Churches in Tallinn

clerical art in Estonia. The church was also fitted with numerous side altars before the reformation. P o r g a s s a a r, Kristina; A l j a s, Eva-Grete; K u u s k e m a a, Jüri. Tallinn: Medieval capital. Tallinn: PhotoTour  Other noteworthy items are the 17 th century pulpit and the carved wooden figures of the triumphal arch together with the crucifix, the decoration of the balustrade of the balcony, the 17th- century epitaphs to Bartholomeus Rottert and Michael Prosa, as well as the church chandeliers. The earliest reports of the Holy Ghost Church organ date back to 1511. The present organ was made by organ builder August Artur Terkmann in Tallinn in 1929. Among the older churches in Tallinn, the Holy Ghost Church has been most closely linked to the Estonians, even including claims by some historians that the church had been built on the site of a chapel of an Estonian congregation of the preconquest era of the 13 th century