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Finland's oldest known church offers clues to how Christianity took root

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Ravattula Church is the oldest known site of its kind in Finland .

It predates the establishment of parishes by the Catholic Church in Finland by more than 800 years .

It is thought to have served as a private chapel or village church for the inhabitants of a nearby settlement until the early 1200s .

After it was abandoned, the memory of the church's existence faded.

Catholic Church of the time wanted deceased to be buried directly in the ground, wrapped in a linen shroud, without a coffin.

Well-preserved textiles were found in a grave next to the church, despite the fact that the acidic soil had destroyed most of the contents of the graves over the centuries .

Bright and colourful glass beads that were recovered from several graves are particularly well preserved.

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