Ängskyrkan is a modern church in Storvreten, part of Tumba in Botkyrka municipality. Built in the 1990s to serve a growing suburb, it combines a bright worship space with community halls, and remains known for strong volunteer involvement in its services and activities.
The congregation's roots go back to 1881, when the EFS mission society opened a mission house called Elimsborg in nearby Broängen. Activity there lapsed for a period in the 1960s before restarting in 1967 under the name Broängskyrkan, which was later enlarged with an additional mobile church building in 1970. In 1972 an agreement brought Broängskyrkan into the Church of Sweden, though the mission society continued to run its day-to-day activities.
By the late 1980s the congregation had outgrown its premises, leading to the decision to build a new church. Designed by architect Bertil Håkansson, it was consecrated on 5 September 1993 by Bishop Henrik Svenungsson together with the EFS mission director Bertil Johansson. The building formed a shared venture between Botkyrka parish and the local EFS mission association until the association was dissolved in 2016, after which the parish took over the church entirely.
The church is built of yellow brick with a tiled roof, forming part of a larger complex that includes a hall, offices and premises for children's and youth work. A large brass cross hangs on one gable, and rather than a tower the church has a free-standing bell frame built in matching materials. Inside, the almost square worship space is arranged diagonally, with curved rows of pews facing a free-standing altar set before a screen wall in one corner; a small chapel is tucked behind the screen. The main hall seats around 150, though a folding wall can be opened to add further capacity.
Among the church's furnishings is a textile altarpiece known as Vägen till himmelen (The Way to Heaven), inspired by a hymn by Britt G. Hallqvist, designed by Anna Lisa Odelqvist-Kruse and woven by Ulla Parkdahl; it depicts pilgrims, the Last Supper and other Christian symbols. The altar itself is whitewashed wood, decorated with a glass cross by Olle Nyman, who also made a stone crucifix figure mounted on a metal cross. The organ was built by the Grönlund organ workshop in Gammelstad in 1982.
Visitors may also notice three large drawings by the well-known Tumba painter Sven "X:et" Erixson, sketched in the 1920s as designs for church decoration that were never carried out — one shows a church window, and two depict angels.
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Ängskyrkan is a modern church in Storvreten, part of Tumba in Botkyrka municipality. Built in the 1990s to serve a growing suburb, it combines a bright worship space with community halls, and remains known for strong volunteer involvement in its services and activities.
Storvretsvägen 41, 147 54, Tumba
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