Our first evening in Tallinn was foggy giving strange lighting for night photography though the lights cut through it. First two mages from the hill above Freedom Square, which my hotel (large building on the left) looks out onto and is lit by pillars of blue lights. St John's Church (Jaani Kirik) is built in the neo-Gothic style, and was opened in 1887. Plans to demolish the church were proposed in both the 1930s and the 1950s by planners who felt its style jarred with the other buildings of Freedom Square; local opposition prevented the planned demolition in both cases. The Alexander Nevsky Cathedral, on Toompea hill, was completed around 1900 when the country was in the Russian Empire. When Estonia became part of the USSR it was left to decline but has been meticulously restored since Estonia regained independence from the Soviet Union in 1991.
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