Mourionska

Muonionniska lies on the Muonio River, in the northern country through which Sámi families travelled between inland forests and mountain pastures. The river became an international boundary after Sweden ceded Finland to Russia in 1809, dividing a region whose inhabitants had long crossed it. A chapel community had been established here under Övertorneå in 1788. In 1812 Muonio became a separate parish on the Finnish side, and a church was ordered for its congregation.