Broken Line

The "Broken Line" memorial in Tallinn's Kesklinn district commemorates the victims of the MS Estonia ferry, which sank on September 28, 1994. It replaces an earlier simple wooden cross and is made of black granite. Its design forms a broken line, or an arc, whose two ends point toward each other but never touch. A large memorial stone bearing the names of all the dead is integrated into the artwork. The monument was unveiled on September 27, 1996, one day before the second anniversary of the disaster, by Estonia's then-president, Lennart Meri.