Helsinki Cathedral

This guide to Helsinki Cathedral turns on the twelve giant apostle figures lining its roofline, cast not by a single sculptor but by anonymous foundry workers in Berlin. It traces architect Carl Ludvig Engel, who designed the church's plain, temple-like roofline but died in 1840 before it was finished, leaving his successor Ernst Lohrmann to decide the dome needed company. You'll hear how the S. P. Devaranne foundry and sculptors like August Wredow and Hermann Schievelbein took on the commission, and how the figures made their way from Berlin to the rooftop above Senate Square.