St. John's Church stands in the Ullanlinna district of Helsinki, on a hill that was once a site for Midsummer bonfires. The Swedish architect Adolf Emil Melander designed it. Work began in 1888, and the church was completed and consecrated in 1891. The article names no client.
The style is Gothic Revival. The church is of stone, and its twin towers rise 243 feet (74 m). It seats 2,600 people, which the article calls the largest seating capacity of any stone church in Finland. The concrete gargoyles were repaired in a renovation finished in August 2022.
Eero Järnefelt painted the altarpiece of Saul's conversion. It is a Lutheran church used for services, concerts and events.
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