Siionin Virret

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Siionin virret ("Hymns of Zion") is a hymnbook of the Finnish herännäisliike or socalled körtti people (very roughly comparable to the Amish in the United States). It is used especially at small informal meetings and at their major meetings. At the summer of 2005 meeting, at Saarijärvi an addendum book was publish which contains 53 new and old hymns. With this addendum, the canon of the hymnbook contains 314 hymns.

The first edition of the book was published in 1790. The current edition dates to 1972.

[edit] External links

• Siionin virret - the hymns on the Herättäjä-Yhdistys web page.