The story
Siikainen was founded as a chapel of the Merikarvia mother parish in 1772, when the first church was completed. Siikainen was separated from Merikarvia as an independent parish by an imperial decree on 2 December 1861. The municipality of Siikainen was founded in 1871.
The villages of Uusi- and Vanha-Samminmaja previously belonged to the municipality of Kankaanpää. Uusi-Samminmaja was annexed to the Siikainen parish in 1904.
The old church of Siikainen burned down in 1887, and the current church, representing the neo-Gothic style, was built in 1889.
The municipality is unilingually Finnish.
Siikainen hosts the buddhist center Samje, and the stupa located there was the northernmost in the world until 2016.
From Wikipedia’s article on Siikainen, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.5