Anna Heikel
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Anna Charlotta Heikel was a Finland-Swedish teacher and director of the School for the Deaf in Jakobstad, Finland, from 1878 to 1898. She was a temperance activist as well as a pioneer of the Baptist
Anna Heikel, 20 August 1877 Credit: Daniel Nyblin
Anna Heikel with student Frans Leijon in the 1890s. Credit: Jakob (?) Grönroos
Baptists in Finland
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Baptists in Finland have existed since the middle of the 19th century. They are part of the Baptist branch of evangelical Christianity and belong to three different Finnish church associations. Swedis
Finnish-speaking Baptist church in Kissanmaa, Tampere.
The Swedish Baptist Church of Vaasa in November 2022
Jakobstad Bethany Church.
The first Baptist baptism of Tampere took place on September 16, 1886 in Kaupinoja, when about twenty people were baptized.