The Sámi Cultural Centre SAJOS, opening on January 2nd 2012, to be built on the bank of River Juutuanjoki in Inari, in Finland, will become the centre of Sámi culture and administration. The Sami Parliament of Finland will pass to SAJOS, the Parliament reports.

The purpose of the Sámi Cultural Centre SAJOS is to create better possibilities for the Sámi in Finland to preserve and develop their own language, culture and business activities as well as to manage and develop their cultural self-government and to support the development of their general living conditions.

The Cultural Centre SAJOS fundamentally improves the possibilities of passing information about the Sámi people as the indigenous people of Finland. The Centre will attract national and international interest, and it will become an exciting meeting place of multiculturalism.

The Sámi Cultural Centre SAJOS is funded by 5 million euros by the European regional development fund.