Sõprus ('Friendship') is a

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Tallinn Tallinn is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Estonia, most populous city of Estonia. Situated on a Tallinn Bay, bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, it has a population of (as of 2025) and ...

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. The venue was built in 1955 and it was designed by

Peeter Tarvas Peeter Tarvas (until 1940 Treumann; 6 January 1916, in Kuressaare – 23 March 1987, in Tallinn) was an Estonian architect and professor.Eesti kunsti ja arhitektuuri biograafiline leksikon (EKABL). Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus, 1996. Pa ...

and

August Volberg August Volberg (18 December 1896 Muuksi, Harju County – 21 June 1982 Tallinn) was an Estonian architect and educator.Eesti kunsti ja arhitektuuri biograafiline leksikon (EKABL). Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus, 1996. Page 600 In 1927, h ...

; interior was designed by Maia Laul. It the beginning, the building's had two halls: so-called red hall and white hall, each having 396 seats. Since the 1990s, only one hall is used by the cinema. By 2004, the hall had 282 seats. Today, Sõprus is part of

Europa Cinemas Cinema of Europe refers to the film industries and films produced in the continent of Europe. The history of Italian cinema began a few months after the French Lumière brothers, who made the first public screening of a film on 28 December 1 ...

, a network of movie theatres with the goal of distributing films from different countries across Europe, but also providing financial support for the venues.

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Museum of Estonian Architecture Estonian Museum of Architecture () is an architecture museum in Tallinn, Estonia. It is located in the Rotermann quarter. The museum is a member of International Confederation of Architectural Museums, ICAM. History The museum was established ...

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