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St John’s Church

Gothic splendour

The red-brick bulk of the Gothic St John’s Church (Jaani kirik) has had a turbulent history; founded in 1330, bombed out in 1944 and left half-ruined until 1989, when the restorers moved in and added a new spire.

The building is famous for the gallery of fourteenth-century terracotta heads arranged in niches around the main entrance. Those on show today are recently installed replicas – the originals will be displayed in the church interior after a spell at the restorers. They portray mostly medieval archetypes – nobles, tradesmen, peasants and so on – and were no doubt modelled on Tartu folk of the time.

Inside the impressively bare red-brick nave are more terracotta figures, with full-size portrayals of saints perched in niches beneath the ceiling.

You can scale the church’s tower for a bird’s eye view of the city centre.

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Jaani Tänav 5

Open: Tuesday-Saturday 11:00 - 18:00

Tickets: church €1, tower €3

Tartu

Image by Pietade/Wikimedia Commons