Birgitta Convent Ruins

This guide to the Birgitta Convent Ruins in Tallinn starts with the sound of 1436, when monks and nuns on either side of a stone screen sang through all one hundred fifty psalms, seven times a day. You'll hear how the Bridgettine order kept the sexes apart even in worship, with nuns singing unseen from a hidden gallery, and how relics of Saint Birgitta herself were carried north from Sweden in 1407 to draw pilgrims and their indulgences. The guide follows that traffic of belief and coin around the twenty altars still traceable in the ruins. Stand where the stone screen once stood to picture the two choirs answering each other.