Oleviste kogudus

This guide to Oleviste kogudus, Saint Olaf's Church in Tallinn, opens with the legend carved above its door: a builder named Olaf who fell from the spire, and the toad and snake said to have spilled from his mouth. It then turns to the truer story behind that spire, raised so tall it once served as a beacon for Baltic sailors and, for a stretch of the fifteen hundreds, was said to be the tallest structure on earth. You'll hear how, century after century, the sky turned on it. Look up at the copper spire glinting over the rooftops before you listen.