EST:
Audru Püha Risti kirik valmis 1680. aastal. See kirik on üks vähestest 17.sajandist säilinud maakirikudest Eestis. Barokset heledalt krohvitud kivikirikut kroonib kõrge ja saleda gooti telkkiivriga torn. Avara kirikusaali kohal kõrgub kaunis peegelvõlvlagi. Kirikus sees on pingid, kantsel, altarisein ja võre ning lääneseina orelirõdu pärineb 19. sajandist. Gustav Biermanni altarimaali ,,Kristus ristil” annetas kirikule 1872. aastal Audru mõisaproua Pilar von Pilchau. Audru kirik on ehitatud suure kirikuehitaja Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie patronaaži all.
Audru kirikut ümbristeb imekaunis park. Kirikuaias asub Eesti ainus kirikut ümbritsev arboreetum. Selle rajajale Raimond Erik Prentselile on samasse püstitatud mälestuskivi. Arboreetumis kasvab mitmeid Eesti parkides haruldasi liike: Fraseri nulg, korea seedermänd, tähkvaher, kollane kask, ameerika pärn ja jaapani jalakas. Kirikuaias on mälestustahvliga kivi heliloojatele ja koorijuhtidele vendadele Aleksander Kunileiule ja Friedrich August Saebelmannile.
Audru kiriku orel on ühe vanima Eesti soost orelimeistri Carl Georg Thali kõige paremini säilinud instrument ja seega haruldus Eesti orelite hulgas.
ENG:
The Church of the Holy Cross of Audru was completed in 1680. This church is one of the few surviving rural churches from the 17th century in Estonia. The baroque, light-plastered stone church is crowned by a tower with a tall and slender Gothic tent helmet. A beautiful mirror vaulted ceiling rises above the spacious church hall. Inside the church, there are pews, a pulpit, an altar wall and a grate, and the organ balcony on the west wall dates from the 19th century. Gustav Biermann's altar painting "Christ on the Cross" was donated to the church in 1872 by Pilar von Pilchau, lady of the Audru manor. Audru Church was built under the patronage of the great church builder Magnus Gabriel de la Gardie.
The Audru church is surrounded by a beautiful park. The only arboretum surrounding the church in Estonia is located in the church garden. A memorial stone has been erected in the same place for its founder Raimond Erik Prentsel. Several species rare in Estonian parks grow in the arboretum: Fraser fir, Korean cedar pine, star maple, yellow birch, American linden and Japanese elm. In the church garden, there is a stone with a memorial plaque to the brothers Aleksander Kunileiu and Friedrich August Saebelmann, composers and choirmasters.
The organ of the Audru church is the best-preserved instrument of one of the oldest Estonian organ masters, Carl Georg Thal, and thus a rarity among Estonian organs.