Pirita (Pirita)

After Birgitta Birgersdotter, Saint Bridget of Sweden, 1303-1373. The Brigittine sisters first arrived in Estonia in 1412, five years after its founding. Host to the annual Birgitta Music Festival, the convent currently (2020) numbers 10 nuns, of Mexican or Indian origin. Previously (1920) spelled Piirita. Owes its fame largely to Bornhöhe’s novel Vürst Gabriel ehk Pirita kloostri viimsed päevad, Prince Gabriel or the Last Days of Pirita Convent (1893), converted into a historical adventure film, Viimne reliikvia, The Last Relic, by Grigori Kromanov (1969). The Estonian present-day first name Piret derives from Birgitta/Pirita. One of Tallinn’s 8 Districts (Linnaosad). It includes the following Asumid (Sub-districts): Iru, Kloostrimetsa, Kose, Laiaküla, Lepiku, Maarjamäe, Merivälja, Mähe and Pirita. See Põhja-Tallinn.