Käina Martin’s Church ruins.

A stone church was erected in Käina in 1492-1515 during the reign of Saare-Lääne bishop Johannes III Orges. It is one of the youngest and quaintest medieval sacral buildings in the Western Archipelago, a simple gothic church with a single-aisle nave. Between the years 1859-1860 Käina church was thoroughly rebuilt. The southern wall of the nave was torn down and the nave was extended with a large new added structure in the southern side of the church. At first the church’s saint was Saint Nicholas, later however Saint Martin.

On October 14, 1941 the church was hit by an incendiary bomb which, dropping in through the ceiling of the choir burned the building to the ground.

Photogrammetry reconstruction in RealityCapture from 569 images. © Saulius Zaura www.dronepartner.lt 2022