Otaniemi Chapel — Local services in Helsinki sub-region

Otaniemi Chapel (Finnish: Otaniemen kappeli) is a Lutheran chapel located in the Student Village of Otaniemi campus of Aalto University in Espoo, Finland. The chapel was designed by the architect couple Heikki and Kaija Siren for a 1954 architectural competition, completed in 1956 and inaugurated in 1957. The chapel is located on a small hill in the woods, surrounded by pine and birch trees. The main materials of the chapel are red brick and wood, tying the chapel together with other brick buildings in the campus area, including the main university buildings designed by Alvar Aalto. The building is entered from a walled courtyard that also has a bell tower. The chapel itself, past a clubroom, has two side walls made of bricks. The parallel walls “channel a progression from a secular to a spiritual view of nature”: the altar wall made of glass, opening to the surrounding nature with a white cross standing...

The Chapel has quite nice chamber acoustics (not as much echo as traditional larger churches have). There is an acoustic piano you can play if the chapel is open and there are no events happening at the same time. The background seen from the chapel windows is amazing:...

Architecturally pleasing ambience and huge glass window into ever-changing nature with the natural light changing. Intimate...