Raunala

Rounala was a Sámi meeting place and church site in the northern reaches of Torne Lappmark. The people of the Rounala community travelled across the mountains and maintained regular contact with the Norwegian coast. Tradition credits three Christian Sámi brothers with building the small chapel, carrying its timber over the mountains from Norway. A chapel stood here by the end of the sixteenth century; after a new church was established at Enontekis in the early seventeenth century, the old site gradually fell out of use.