The Church of St. Lawrence in Lohja, Finland, is a medieval parish church and the third largest in the country. Its murals were painted in the 1510s in a rustic, naive style. They show biblical stories for a population that could not read.
The bell tower stands at the southeast corner. Its gray stone base is probably medieval, and its wooden upper parts took their present form after the Great Northern War. The German master builder Johann Friedrich Schultz worked on the tower around 1740. The church has three bells. The oldest was cast in Tallinn in 1594, the largest in Lohja in 1624 and the smallest in Stockholm in 1740.
In the early nineteenth century the windows were enlarged and the paintings were covered with white chalk paint. The white paint was removed in the 1880s, and the colorful figures were restored.
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