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Fagerhults kapell

Address
Tanums pastorat Kvillevägen 4
Municipality
Tanums Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Göteborg

Fagerhults kapell is a small white timber chapel in the Tanum area of Västra Götaland, roughly five kilometres east of Norra Bullaresjön. Built by the local community in the early twentieth century, it remains a modest but characterful example of rural voluntary church-building in Sweden.



The chapel was built between 1919 and 1921, funded and constructed almost entirely through voluntary effort by a local chapel-building association. Households in the area contributed both labour and money, reportedly around 70 kronor each, though this proved insufficient and further small contributions had to be collected before the building could be finished. Despite this early completion, the formal consecration did not take place until 1925.

The chapel was designed by Albin and Carl Wilhelm Gustavsson of Borås and built in white-painted timber. It has a notably steep saddle roof, with a slender ridge turret and spire rising above the west front. The main entrance lies to the east, the chancel to the west, and a small sacristy extends from the south side. The interior is simple and plain, decorated in white. By the early 1990s the building had fallen into disrepair and underwent renovation at that time.

Among the chapel's furnishings, the organ was built by Georg Holländer and installed in 1991. The most distinctive feature is the bell hanging in the turret, which bears inscriptions and is said, according to local tradition, to have come originally from a monastery in Austria; it arrived at the chapel in 1922. The precise history behind the bell's journey to this small Swedish chapel is not otherwise documented in the sources available.

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Fagerhults kapell

Fagerhults kapell is a small white timber chapel in the Tanum area of Västra Götaland, roughly five kilometres east of Norra Bullaresjön. Built by the local community in the early twentieth century, it remains a modest but characterful example of rural voluntary church-building in Sweden.

Tanums pastorat Kvillevägen 4

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Provider record updated: 4 Apr 2023. This is not an independent verification date.

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