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Nord Sports Hall

sports venue in Tallinn, Estonia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ124388051 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nord Sports Hall (Estonian: Nord Spordihoone) is a multi-purpose indoor arena in Mustamäe, Tallinn. It was opened in 2002 and is owned by the City of Tallinn company AS Tallinna Arendused. It can hold up to 1,066 people.

History

Tiit Sokk Basketballschool

The hall was built for olympic winner Tiit Soku's personal basketball school. It was one of the first sports halls built in Estonia which construction was privately funded.

Nord Sports Hall

In June 2018, City of Tallinn bought the hall from Tiit Sokk for two million euros. Since then the owner of the hall is Tallinn company AS Tallinna Arendused. After the deal, they started looking for a tenant, which became Nord Sports Club.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Nord Sports Hall” is sports venue in Tallinn, Estonia. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Nord, Sports and Hall, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2002, 2018—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Nord, Sports and Hall is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q124388051. Authority coordinates are 59.395, 24.700. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2002 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Nord Sports Hall” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.