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Sweden is moving 113-year-old Kiruna Church to save it

Metro on MSN · 1h

Sweden's Kiruna Church moved 5km to save town

The Kiruna Church - called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish - and its belfry are being moved this week.

Associated Press News on MSN · 1d

This Swedish church is being moved down the road before a mine swallows its town

Construction signs are placed outside the Kiruna Church, a Sami style wooden Swedish Lutheran church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, in Kiruna, Sweden, Saturday, Aug. 16, 2025, a day before it will be moved along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as part of the town’s relocation. (AP Photo/Malin Haarala)

DW on MSN · 2d

Sweden moves landmark Kiruna Church to new site

What has wheels and crawls along at half a kilometer an hour? A church in Sweden, of course! A convoy of remote-controlled flatbed trailers is transporting a 113-year-old church to the new city center of Kiruna.

Historic Swedish church arrives at new home

A historic Swedish church embraces inclusion with minority languages

But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to incorporate the region's minority languages — Northern Sami, Finnish and Meänkieli – into worship services, carrying on an inclusive ethos that has been a cornerstone of the historic wooden church since its founding in 1912.

Wyoming News · 6h

Historic Swedish church arrives at new home after two-day journey

A landmark Swedish church in the Arctic arrived Wednesday at its new home after a two-day move across the town of Kiruna to allow Europe's biggest underground mine to expand.

Daily Journal · 23h

Historic Swedish church inches closer to new home

A historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden's most beautiful buildings resumed its slow move across the Arctic town of Kiruna on Wednesday, inching toward its new home to

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Sweden’s Kiruna Church Is On The Move After More Than 100 Years

The fascinating city relocation project in Kiruna, Sweden, reaches a new milestone as the iconic Kiruna Church is moved in ...

Catholic News Agency19h

Sweden saves historic Arctic church with massive move away from mine

The mammoth move has seen the wooden structure, weighing over 600 tons, transported on specialized trailers traveling at ...

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Sweden moves the historic Kiruna Church before an iron-ore mine swallows it

The Kiruna Church and its belfry are being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as ...

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How Do You Move a Hundred-Year-Old Church? On Wheels, Very Slowly.

Mining in Kiruna, Sweden, has weakened the ground below a beloved church. It’s being rolled three miles to its new home.

Video: Sweden moves 672-ton church 5km to the left to save it from being swallowed by giant mine

Video: Sweden moves 672-ton church 5km to the left to save it from being swallowed by giant mine The 113-year-old ...

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Wooden church sets off on slow Swedish road trip to escape mining subsidence

Sweden's landmark Kiruna Church begins a two-day trip to a new home, inching down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls ...

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