Valjala Church
Saint Martin's Church of Valjala is the oldest church in Estonia. It is located in Valjala, on the island of Saaremaa.
Read more about Valjala Church: The Western Portal, View From The Northeast, Interior, Baptismal Font
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“A State, in idea, is the opposite of a Church. A State regards classes, and not individuals; and it estimates classes, not by internal merit, but external accidents, as property, birth, etc. But a church does the reverse of this, and disregards all external accidents, and looks at men as individual persons, allowing no gradations of ranks, but such as greater or less wisdom, learning, and holiness ought to confer. A Church is, therefore, in idea, the only pure democracy.”
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