Virmapyhä

 

Virmapyhä Mountain is an old place of sacrifice and worship along the Jämsänjoki River, about a couple of kilometers from Jämsä’s Hiidenmäki downstream. Old spruce and shield-pine pines grow on the hill. Virmapyhä is an impressive, even empowering mossless forest with magnificent rock cavities and signs of the forest king’s presence.

Tradition tells us that the people of Jämsä who went to war took their own stone to the mountain, which when they returned, picked up. The number of stones left is said to belong to the people who fell in the war. It is known that the people of Sysmä used to go to Jämsä Church and change their church clothes at the foot of Virmapyhä. The mountain used to be a place of worship and sacrifice.

 

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Address: Turkinkyläntie 120, Jämsä

 

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