The church is associated with the Finnish saying “ahtaat paikat kuin Pielaveden kirkossa” (cramped places like in Pielavesi Church). Nowadays, the old churchyard has a bell tower and a monument for those who died during the famine of the 1860s. A slender, Ostrobothnian-style Renaissance statue was built in 1748 under the direction of Anders Brofallin johdolla.[5]