This Swedish church is moving 3 miles down the road. It’s relocating before a mine swallows the town
KIRUNA, Sweden — How do you move one of Sweden’s most beloved wooden churches down the road? With a little bit of engineering, a lot of prayer — and some Eurovision for good luck. The Kiruna Church — ...
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How do you move a beloved Swedish church three miles up the road? With prayer, engineering and a special trailer
A church in Sweden is being moved three miles up the road over two days in a major operation to save it from subsidence. Kiruna Church is being moved to a new location, slowly traversing an Arctic ...
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To Save This Historic Church, Workers Loaded It Onto Trailers and Rolled It Across Town. See How They Pulled It Off
When mining operations endangered a 113-year-old Lutheran church in northern Sweden, officials decided to move it to another part of town. Between August 19 and 20, workers carefully loaded the Kiruna ...
Sweden's historic Kiruna Church needed to be relocated due to an expanding iron ore mine in the area. Rather than demolishing it or trying to carefully disassemble it for the move, the decision was ...
KIRUNA, Sweden — How do you move one of Sweden’s most beloved wooden churches down the road? With a little engineering, a lot of prayer — and some Eurovision for good luck. The Kiruna Church — called ...
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 ...
This Swedish church is moving 3 miles down the road. It’s relocating before a mine swallows the town
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — How do you move one of ...
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