Hiiumaa’s oldest stone church, founded by the German Livonian Order in the 13th century, is worth visiting if driving through sleepy Suuremõisa, en route to the ferry at Heltermaa. Completed as a simpler fortress-church in the 14th century, its distinctive Lutheran steeple was added in the 18th century.
Pühalepa Church
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