St Elizabeth’s Lutheran Church Western Estonia & The Islands

Consecrated in 1750, this dignified, rust-coloured Lutheran church was named for Russian Empress Yelizaveta Petrovna, who gifted Pärnu's Lutherans 8000 roubles for its construction. Also giving props to St John the Baptist's mum, its simple interior has low dangling chandeliers, a Gothic-style carved wooden pulpit and a wonderful altarpiece of the Resurrection from Rotterdam (1854).