Photo album of theAcademic Society of TheologiansThe Academic Society of Theologians was active at the Universityof Tartu from 1921 to 1940. It united the majority of UT Facultyof Theology’s students and alumni, Estonian clergy of the Lutheranchurch and all other interested parties across the land.Members of the Society participated in the work of a committeecreated at the Faculty of Theology and intended for preparing termsin the field of theology. In 1933 to 1940 the Society published theUsuteadusline Ajakiri (Journal on Theology), as well as books. In1926 to 1940 members participated in registering religious memorialsacross Estonia. They reviewed the archives and inventory listsof churches. Details of the exterior and interior design, constructionmaterials, time of construction and other important details of churchbuildings were recorded. Drawings, copies, photographs were made.Inscriptions on tomb stone were copied, drawings were made of thetypes of funerary markers. The orientation of churches and chapelsin view of cardinal points was measured.The Academic Society of Theologians ended its activity in connectionto the dissolution of the Faculty of Theology in August 1940.The album that was donated to the museum in 1996 contains 48photographs mainly from the 1930s. All people in the photographshave been identified
