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Nukari (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈnukɑri]; Swedish: Nuckars) is a village located in the northeast part of Nurmijärvi municipality of Finland, near the border of Tuusula municipality. The nearest neighboring village is Jokela, about 4 kilometers. Next to Nukari is the national road 45, which runs between Helsinki, Tuusula and Hyvinkää. The population of village is about 350 inhabitants.The River Vantaa, which flows through Nukari, has probably brought settlement to Nukari already during the Stone Age. Indeed, three artifacts from the Stone Age have been found on Nukari; flat chisel, hammer ax and polished stone. During the Bronze Age the settlement disappeared, whereas in the Iron Age the whole Uusimaa was mainly hunting ground for Estonians and later for Tavastians. With the Crusades in Sweden, Nukari was once again populated. The bridge over the rapids called Nukarinkoski (or Pengerkoski) in River Vantaa and the road from Helsinki to Hyvinkää (current MT 45), required constant caretakers in the 1650s. Burgess Erkki Nukari declared himself a keen bridge guard if he could get space in the nearby forest area. In 1662, Governor Ernst Johan Creutz granted Erkki Nukar the rights to the wilderness of East Vantaa, the area of the present Nukari village. Nukari founded a permanent tavern and can be considered the first real farmer in Vantaa. Nukarinkoski has also played an important role in the industrialization of Nukari village. As early as the end of the 16th century, a watermill was built on the rapids and by the 1660s there were already two mills. In addition, sawmills were built along the rapids, and in the 20th century, a lumber factory operated alongside another mill. The Nurmijärvi Municipal Power Plant planned to build a power plant in Nukarinkoski at the turn of the 1920s, but it had to be abandoned due to high costs. Nukarinkoski was used for log driving in the 1920s and 1950s. The first volksschule in Nurmijärvi (now the Nukari School Museum) started its operations in 1873. The school was founded by Matilda Adlercreutz, the lady of Raala Manor. The lady found it important that the manor's workers, laborers, and crofters, and above all their children, received instruction and education. In the first fall, 41 students enrolled in the school. In 1900 the school was donated to the municipality. Nukari has also a primary school and a kindergarten, and in the 1980s there were 2 village shops, a bank, a post office and a hairdressing salon. Nukari no longer has any grocery stores or kiosks, only one filling station. The nearest shops can be found in the neighboring village, Jokela. In 2009, the Finnish-Thai Buddhist Association bought a house in Nukari where a Thai Buddhist temple was established. In 2020, a new fine ceremony house was completed, which can accommodate 250 people, and in 2021, two bhikkhus (monks) and one novice will live in the Buddharama temple. The opening and inauguration of the new ceremonial house will not be held until 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. At present, Nukari Temple is the largest of Finland's three Thai Buddhist temples.

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Nurmijärvi (village)
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The Nurmijärvi church village (also known as Nurmijärvi; Finnish: Nurmijärven kirkonkylä) is the administrative center of the municipality by the same name in Uusimaa, Finland, with about 8,000 inhabitants. At the end of 2018, the population of the Nurmijärvi's urban area in accordance with Statistics Finland's agglomeration area was 7,429, made it the second most-populated urban area of the municipality. It is located 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) from Rajamäki, 13 kilometres (8.1 mi) from Röykkä and 16 kilometres (9.9 mi) from the municipality's largest and the most-populated urban area, Klaukkala. The connecting road 1311 (former regional road 131) runs through the center between the Rajamäki and Hämeenlinnanväylä junctions. There is also a road connection to the center of Tuusula, as regional road 139 runs through the village of Palojoki towards Hyrylä. The largest industrial and business area in the municipality, Ilvesvuori, is being built near the center by the Tampere Highway (E12), and a large logistics center owned by Kesko is being built there, among other things. Next to Ilvesvuori, along the motorway, there is Myllykukko, known as a place for refueling and eating, and its services include Hesburger and Subway restaurants, among others.Nurmijärvi center has many service sector jobs. Its municipal services include the municipal hall, library, several grocery stores (three Kesko's and one S Group's), main health center, fire station and police station. It also has two primary schools (Maaniittu school and Lukkari School) and one high school. Other facilities include the Kino Juha cinema and bus station. The grocery chain Lidl and the discount store chain Tokmanni opened their stores in August 2022. There is also Finland's only Erätukku, a store specializing in equipments of wilderness hiking and fishing, which reopened in 2018 with the help of a new owner. In 2021, the Bowling Corner & Billiard leisure venue was opened, where people can go bowling and play billiards. On Aleksis Kiven tie street is the Nurmijärvi church (1793) and the cemetery, the old rectory called Lukkarila, and Mäntylä, the house of Malakias Costiander, the first schoolmaster of Nurmijärvi; Costiander was known as Aleksis Kivi's teacher. Near the church was also the first pharmaceutical factory in Finland, once founded by Albin Koponen. Next to the village was once a lake of the same name, which was partially drained in the 1920s and completely in the 1950s to gain more farmland.The village served as a filming location for the 1954 comedy film Hilma's Name Day (Hilmanpäivät), directed by Matti Kassila.