Christ on the cross. „Hans Homodt 1621ˮ

Five glass paintings of the Ruhnu wooden church have preserved from the 17th century, they are located in the Swedish History Museum in Stockholm (Historiska Museet).In 1944 the people of Ruhnu took the paintings with them when escaping from the war (see Departure of the Ruhnu Swedes). Currently there are the copies made by the glass department’s students of 1998 of the Estonian Academy of Arts in the church. The oldest painted oval depicts the Christ on the cross and it includes the text „Hans Homodt 1621ˮ, factually this is the death year of the Ruhnu’s first parson. The painted oval is older than the wooden church completed in 1644, therefore, it was brought there from an earlier house of God. Noa ship and the text „Ambernus Mauraeus Pastor auf Ruhnen 1650ˮ is depicted on the second parson’s oval. An angle-shaped glass painting with the name of Caspar Behrens, who was a rich peasant of Ruhnu, also belongs to this collection. A sailing boat with two men sitting in it is depicted on two paintings. Mattias Bulder and Jurgen Bulder can be read under the pictures of the men, these men represent the famous Ruhnu family. Both paintings originate from 1650.

Ambernus Mauraeus

Caspar Behrens

Mattias Bulder

Created in 2013