Lapinjärvi is a
municipality in Southern
Finland about 95 km from
Helsinki.
There are two
churches, for both finnish and swedish services. Older church, swedish one, is built at
1575
It is an ancient habitation area with oldest discoveries from over 6000 years ago. Nowadays there are bit over 3000 inhabitants.
Name is literally "The lake of Lappland" but due it's location it propably means something quite different ;) There is a lake though with the same name close to center with average depth of 2 m...
On the west corner of municipality, in Porlammi, is on the other hand Pyhäjärvi, which average depth is 21 m which is deepest in Finland...