The wooden Church of Ulrika Eleonora was built on the Senate square in 1727. However the church was received a demolition order when Helsinki became the capital of Finland. The organ of the church, the pulpit with its sculptures and the throne with its crowns were moved into a temporary suburban church built in 1826, nowadays called the Old Church. The altar-piece was sold to the congregation of Mikkeli.
     The church building was auctioned on January 7, 1827. The magistrate M. Cronholm bought the timber balks for 1800 roubles. He had a house built out of the balks in the corner of Unioninkatu street and Eteläinen Makasiinikatu

('Southern Storehouse Street'). Even when taken down, the balks of the church were still extremely sturdy. According to tradition, they had been cut down in Korkeasaari island 100 years earlier. The graveyard surrounding the church had been in service as early as the 1640s, but since the 1790s the deceased were only buried in vaulted burial chambers.
     Today there are four stone bollards on the University side of Senate Square, marking the spot where the altar of the Ulrika Eleonora Church once stood. The foundations of the church have been picked out in different colour stone on the present surface of the square.