Sjundeå

Sjundeå, or Siuntio, lies in the countryside west of Helsinki. Its medieval grey-stone church, dedicated to Saint Peter, was completed around 1480. Star vaults and paintings of biblical stories and Catholic legends were added in the early sixteenth century. Fire damaged the church more than once, and its paintings were covered with lime plaster in the eighteenth century, but the old stone building continued to serve the parish.