Vika kyrka

A wooden church is thought to have once stood on this site, probably destroyed by fire, followed by a smaller stone church. It has even been suggested that a pre-Christian cult site may have existed here before Christianity reached the area, likely in the 1100s. The present stone church was consecrated in 1469, although some parts, including the sacristy, are older.

The building consists of a tall, spacious nave beneath a steep, shingle-clad roof, with an attached sacristy to the north-east and a porch to the south-west. The lower parts of the walls are built of rough stone, with brick above. The roof structure itself dates from the time of the church's construction, and the timberwork in the nave shows the marks of late medieval carpentry technique, suggesting the work of only a handful of craftsmen; the porch roof is of a slightly later, related technique.

The church's sixteenth-century wall paintings, uncovered during a renovation in 1917–1918 led by Sigurd Curman, are a particular highlight. That work also revealed traces of even older paintings, including several consecration crosses. One painting on the eastern wall, showing the evangelist Luke's attribute the ox, is said to have inspired a poem by the Swedish poet Erik Axel Karlfeldt. The same renovation uncovered a bricked-up singers' gallery, a so-called gapskulle, which contained a number of medieval wooden sculptures now displayed around the church—visitors are met in the porch itself by a carving of Saint George and the dragon.

Among the furnishings, the limestone font dates from the early 1500s, and the altar cabinet is attributed to the painter Jordan Målare, from the latter half of the 1400s. The current pulpit dates from the 1650s and was installed during the 1917–1918 renovation; it previously belonged to the church of Vadstena hospital and is said to recall an earlier pulpit that stood in Vika from the 1630s until 1774.

The church has had several organs over the centuries, the earliest recorded from 1614, with rebuilds and replacements following in the 1700s and 1900s. The current organ, a mechanical instrument with 22 stops, was built in 1966 by A. Magnusson orgelbyggeri of Gothenburg. In 2018, Swedish Radio's Christmas morning service was broadcast from the church.