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Also known as Lepakkoluola, Lepakko (building), Liekkihotelli

Lepakko or Lepakkoluola was a self-managed social centre and a music venue in Ruoholahti, Helsinki, Finland, functioning from 1979 to 1999.

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1940-00-00
dissolved, abolished or demolished date
1999-00-00
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Lepakko
street address
Porkkalankatu 1, Helsinki
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Lepakko or Lepakkoluola was a self-managed social centre and a music venue in Ruoholahti, Helsinki, Finland, functioning from 1979 to 1999.

==History== thumb|right|Homeless people at Liekkihotelli in 1973. The building was a paint company warehouse located at Porkkalankatu 1 in the Ruoholahti district of Helsinki, which had been built in 1940. It then became derelict and the City Council of Helsinki opened a hostel for alcoholics on 5 December 1967, in response to public outcry when several homeless alcoholics had frozen to death in the cold of winter. It hosted up to one thousand people and was called Liekkihotelli, or the Flame Hotel.

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