Aa Church

Aa Church, placed in Aakirkeby on the Danish island of Bornholm, is a Romanesque church courting from the twelfth century. It is the parish church of Aaker Parish. Aa Church, which actually approach "circulation church", owes its name to the two streams which run beside it. Dedicated to John the Baptist, it was first called Sankt Hans kirke. A gilded figure of St John stood within the church until 1706 however became buried in the churchyard by the priest because it changed into attracting undue interest from Catholic prisoners in the course of the Great Northern War. The church was built within the latter half of of the twelfth century in several tiers.

The oldest final sections are the choir and apse and the decrease parts of the nave, all characterised through greenish sandstone and rust-brown shale from close by GrOdby Stream. The western cease of the nave and the tower are product of limestone. The guys's door to the south and the girls's door to the north have both been preserved even though the latter has been converted into a window.