Church Rat

Church Rat has spent over 12 years travelling around the world and would now love to find his owners again. Would anyone be able to give him a lift to Helsinki? Or at least a little bit closer? Once in Helsinki, it would be nice if he ended up in either Roihuvuoren hiidenkirnut (GC3XBDB) cache or our own cache The Finnish Himalaya (GCHPTD) in Vuosaari. Thanks a million in advance for any help! :)

The original Church Rat (grey rat) has returned! If you have found the copy (white rat), please contact us :).

Church Rat wants to visit all kinds of churches around the world.

It has three different goals:

1. To get placed in a cache in vicinity of some church

2. To get photographed in front of some church

3. To build a new cache next to some church with the help of a fellow geocacher

Please try to fulfill at least one of its goals if you take the TB with you :)

Visited churches:

1. Oulunkylän vanha kirkko
2. Seutulan kappeli (his "home cache")
3. Hyvinkään kirkko
4. Hyvinkään vanha kirkko
5. Kytäjän kirkko (thank you atrivsolap for all the pics!)
6. Kalevan kirkko
7. Messukylän vanha & uusi kirkko (thank you Jenni & Jouni for taking Church Rat around Tampere churches!)
8. Kalvolan kirkko
9. Luopioisten kirkko (Thanks Harjus for bringing the TB to a cache that is named the same way as the TB - the pics were nice, too! :)
10. Pyhän Laurin kirkko, Janakkala
11. Pyhän Jaakon kirkko, Renko
12. Vanajan kirkko
13. Hämeenlinnan kirkko (Thanks PekkaR! The pictures are all great! Good that the cat didn't catch the poor rat :)
14. Turun tuomiokirkko (Thanks Ruaska for bringing the rat to Turku!)
15. Maarian kirkko (Thanks ekhoc for creating a brand new church cache for the rat and also for the nice picture!)
16. Kakskerran kirkko (Yet another beautiful church for the rat to visit! Thank you Jeo&Kirsi for the great pictures!)
17. Porin ortodoksinen kirkko
18. Luvian kirkko
19. Irjanteen kirkko (Anneli & Ilkka, thank you for showing the pretty churches to the rat! :)
20. Hakavuoren kirkko (Tytti&Mixa - thanks for the pictures! :)
21. Uspenskin katedraali (What a dream come true for the rat, seeing so many churches at once! Thanks Jouko for helping the rat on her journey :)
22. Otaniemen kappeli (Liimes, thanks for the ride and the new cache! :)
23. Leppävaaran kirkko
24. Perkkaan kappeli (Church Rat 2nd is having a nice time in Espoo - thanks Peetu for all the pictures!)
25. Espoonlahden kirkko
26. Espoon Tuomiokirkko
27. Kaskikappeli
28. Mäntykappeli
29. Olarin kirkko
30. Tapiolan kirkko
31. Hiljaisuuden kappeli
32. Hermanin kirkko (archival ink - thanks so much for the pictures!!)
33. Västanfjärdin kirkko (thanks Pealgis for bringing Church Rat 2nd to this church!)
34. Sauvon kirkko
35. Pyhän Birgitan kirkko (rauniot) - (Jyrki&Sari, thanks for the nice pictures!)
36. Lopen vanha kirkko (The rat seems to be very pleased with the new cache - thanks so much succesw! :)
37. Lopen kirkko
38. Hattulan vanha kirkko
39. Hattulan kirkko (Thanks again, PekkaR. Great pics! :)
40. Tyrvännön kirkko (Yet another beautiful church. Thanks for the lift, MooseM :)
41. Tyrvään Pyhän Olavin kirkko
42. Punkalaitumen kirkko (Especially nice to see a picture of the Tyrvää church! Thanks Fisherman77!)
43. Pernajan kirkko (Finland seems to be full of beautiful churches - thanks for the picture, perttuh!)
44. Kustaa Aadolfin kirkko
45. Profeetta Elian kirkko
46. Iisalmen ortodoksinen srk-keskus (Wonderful pics - thanks a lot ExTechOp! :)
47. Church of St-Roch in Quebec, Canada
48. Church of Metzeral, France
49. Church of Mittlach, France
50. Church of Sondernach, France (Great to see some foreign churches! Thanks a lot for the pictures, WingedStone&Tora!)
51. Pyhän Mikaelin kirkko
52. Helsingin temppeli
53. Auroran kappeli
54. Östersundomin kirkko (Many thanks for the great pics, Jouni!)
55. Laajasalon kirkko (Haaskalintu, rat thanks for all the pics!)
56. Haapajärven kirkko (Thanks for showing a new church to the rat, Eero & Päivi!)
57. Suomusjärven puukirkko (What a pretty church! Thanks for taking the rat there, Murre&Mirre!)
58. Pyhittäjä Herman Alaskalaisen kirkko (Quite an exotic name for a church! Thanks for the pic, too, tpv!)
59. Church of Betlehem (pvihavai, thanks for the tour!!)
60. Pyhän Jaakobin kirkko (2JMT, it's always great to see the rat visiting new churches - thanks for helping! :)
61. Salo-Uskela kirkko (lefa_40 - a brand new cache for the rat - thanks a lot! :)