#Merivälja, #Mähe and #Pirita. See #PõhjaTallinn.
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#Almshouse / Hospital / Leprosarium / Poorhouse courtyard. Plot of land surrounding #JaaniSeek, the St-John’s Almshouse.
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found 84% of the population stating a “Lack of Importance of Religion”. In a world where lack of belief in god correlates with advanced civilization, #Estonia is at the top of the league.
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#Kloostrimetsa (Kloostrimets) #Asum
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kloostrimetsa #Lepiku #Laiaküla
#Abbey, cloister, monastery, convent woods. Passes by #Pirita convent.
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#Arbujad member, see #Arbu) and his wife #Eha were the only #Estonians to be honored among Israel’s #RighteousAmongTheNations for saving at least one man’s life. The second wave came after #WWII with an influx of #Jews from across the #USSR.
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#Judaism
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#Arbujad member, see #Arbu) and his wife #Eha were the only #Estonians to be honored among Israel’s #RighteousAmongTheNations for saving at least one man’s life. The second wave came after #WWII with an influx of #Jews from across the #USSR.
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#Judaism
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a family of local residents and butchers (1865).
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#Church #Kirik
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#LaTrappe, #France. At some stage, however, contemporary records of *Cistern- sonst genandt breitstrasse* suggest locals must have become aware of the human side of their angelic nature and that, if nothing else, nuns were still broads!
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#BadJoke #HalbNali
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Present church consecrated in 1870. Mid-life crisis (1950-1989) as #Suvorovi A. during the #SovietOccupation.
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to be one of the 72 languages remaining after the fall of the #TowerOfBabel, #Estonian was, I think, not.
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#Kloostri (Klooster)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Pirita
Abbey, cloister, monastery, convent. Close to Pirita convent.
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#MythsAndLegends #MüüdidJaLegendid
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Hiiepuu (Hiiepuu)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Kose #Varsaallika
Sacred tree, often oak, linden or rowan.
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#Uueristi (Uuerist)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Liiva #Rahumäe
New cross. Renaming of the other half of #Risti on the north-west side of #Pärnu mnt.
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Toom-Kooli.
View along Toom-Kooli, Tallinn, in the northern direction.
View through an archway of mid-2nd-millennium buildings and cobblestone courtyard in Toom-Kooli, Tallinn.
Old limestone slab wall, with lawn and solitary iris in Toom-Kooli, Tallinn.
#Toom-Kooli (Toom-Kool)
#Tallinn #Kesklinn #Vanalinn #Toompea
Cathedral School, school founded in 1319.
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#Education #Haridust
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Kas kuidagi omaette, isekeskis, sisemiselt ei saa uskuda? Peab ikka mingi masinavärk selle ümber alati olema???
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Tallinn city streetsign with the streetname Munga on it.
View east towards Müürivahe along Munga, Tallinn.
View west towards Vene along Munga, Tallinn.
Bookshop in Munga, Tallinn, called "Banned Books" or Keelatud Kirjandus (or, literally, banned literature).
#Munga (Munk)
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Monk, friar. Renamed (1950-1987) as #Müürivahe #põik during the #SovietOccupation. Earliest record dates to 1433 as monkestrate, followed by a gap until 1732 with variations
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Niguliste Church, façade in Nuguliste (street), Tallinn.
Niguliste Church, façade viewed from Rüütli (street), Tallinn.
#Niguliste (?)
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Street and church. #Nicholas, presumed dead around 350 CE, relics nicked by Italian merchants in 1087, patron saint of sailors, children, unwed girls, apothecaries, merchants, pawnbrokers and perfumers, and
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Known until 1958 as #Simeoni, Siimeoni, Siimoni or Simuna after its Saints Simon and Anna orthodox church (built 1752-1871) and no sexism here of course so please move on. Part (3rd) of the E67 from #Helsinki to #Prague, see also #Reidi.
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#Church #Kirik
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St Catherine’s day (see #Katariina), ‘kadrisants’ (mainly young women, but some reports say men too, although they had their similar day on the feast of St Martin’s) dressed up in masks and light-colored women’s clothing go from door to door asking gifts (food, wool, etc.)
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at which point (pun intended) the spire burnt down due to lightning. Interestingly, #BenFranklin was one of the first to write about the arrogance of putting lightning-conductors on church steeples.
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#Katoliku Hoov (Adj.)
Catholic courtyard. It belong(s/ed?) to the #TallinnaDominiiklaste, Tallinn Dominicans (see #Dominiiklaste), the tacky insignia of which, a dog, is a rather poor piece of Latin punning:
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#Hindu mythology has a #goddess called तारा, #Tārā, also meaning ‘star’]), also known as #Uku, sometimes #VanaIsa (Old Father), or #Tharapita from the god indicated in the c. 1229 #LivonianChronicle of Henry (which some claimed, with unintentional humor, as coming from
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#Marta (Marta)
Martha, woman’s name. Given its crossing #Magdaleena tänav and one-time name of Magdaleena põik (-1933?), presumably St Martha, sister of #Lazarus and Mary of Bethany, the lady to whom #JC is reputed to have said...
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Street recently upgraded to part of a woman’s name group, see #Marta (perhaps not aware of the #religious connection).
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#Odonymophilia #Odonüümofiilia
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