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News channel or source: https://www.unionleader.com/news/religion/wooden-church-sets-off-on-slow-swedish-road-trip-to-escape-mining-subsidence/article_50437522-50f6-53c5-bcf6-47168da01a2a.html
Published on: Sunday 17 August 2025
Sweden’s landmark Kiruna Church will begin a two-day trip to a new home on Tuesday, inching down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world’s largest ...
News Sweden » Lapland » Religion: A historic Swedish church embraces inclusion with minority languages
News channel or source: https://www.newsday.com/news/nation/sweden-sami-religion-church-relocation-kiruna-q42721
Published on: Wednesday 20 August 2025
KIRUNA, Sweden — The members of Kiruna Church primarily worship in Swedish, their country’s main language. But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to ...