The Sori Square () is a

square In geometry, a square is a regular polygon, regular quadrilateral. It has four straight sides of equal length and four equal angles. Squares are special cases of rectangles, which have four equal angles, and of rhombuses, which have four equal si ...

located in the center of

Tampere Tampere is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Pirkanmaa. It is located in the Finnish Lakeland. The population of Tampere is approximately , while the metropolitan area has a population of approximately . It is the most populous mu ...

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, in the southern part of the

Kyttälä Kyttälä is a district in Tampere, Finland. It was born in the late 1870s as a working-class neighborhood to the eastern outskirts of the town. As Tampere soon expanded, Kyttälä is now a part of the city center between the Tammerkoski river a ...

district. It is located in the area bounded by the Hatanpää Highway, Suvantokatu,

Tuomiokirkonkatu Tuomiokirkonkatu (literally "Cathedral Street") is a north–south street in the center of Tampere, Finland, which runs through the districts of Jussinkylä and Kyttälä. The street is about a kilometer long. In the north it ends at Lapintie, i ...

and Vuolteenkatu. At the eastern end of the square is the

Tampere Orthodox Church Tampere Orthodox Church (also known as the Church of the Alexander Nevsky and the Saint Nicholas) is an Eastern Orthodox church in Tampere, Finland, located in the Kyttälä city district. It is dedicated to Saint Alexander Nevsky and to Saint Nich ...

from 1898. There is a terminus at Tampere Tram Line 1 on the west side. The square was built in the 1980s, and its artistic composition was by sculptor Harry Kivijärvi. In the square is his 10-meter sculpture called ''Pirkka''. Kivijärvi has also designed the area's lamps, benches and trash bins, as well as a

mosaic A mosaic () is a pattern or image made of small regular or irregular pieces of colored stone, glass or ceramic, held in place by plaster/Mortar (masonry), mortar, and covering a surface. Mosaics are often used as floor and wall decoration, and ...

-decorated water basin in the northern corner of the square. The work was completed in the autumn of 1987. The name of Sori Square was marked in the town plan in 1985. It is based on the old place name ''Sorinahde''; the

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that rises from Ratina towards Kalevankangas has been called Sorinahde, and the square is located in the middle of the hill.

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Kyttälä Squares in Tampere {{WesternFinland-geo-stub

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