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Gullabo kyrka

Address
Gullabovägen 13B, 385 92, Gullabo
Municipality
Torsås Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Växjö

Gullabo kyrka is a wooden parish church in Gullabo, in the Torsås area of Kalmar county, belonging to Gullabo församling within the Diocese of Växjö. The present building dates from 1804–05, replacing earlier churches on the same site.



A church is recorded on this site as far back as the fourteenth century, though nothing of that early building survives. It was succeeded by a wooden chapel built in 1713, which eventually proved too small for the growing congregation. The current church was built in 1804 to designs by the architect Axel Almfelt and consecrated in 1805.

The building is constructed of horizontal log timber, clad in white-painted panelling with covering battens, a common technique in Swedish rural church architecture of the period. It has a rectangular nave with a straight-ended chancel to the south-east, behind which lie a sacristy and two small rooms, each with their own separate entrances. The main entrance is at the north-western gable end. A small ridge turret on the south-eastern slope of the tiled roof houses the church bells; the larger bell dates from the time of the church's construction, while the smaller was donated in 1928 by the parish youth group.

Inside, the altarpiece was painted in 1856 by Sven Gustaf Lindblom, a copy after Leonardo da Vinci's Last Supper. The pulpit, positioned above the altar, is said to incorporate the base of an earlier combined altar-and-pulpit structure attributed to Anders Friske; it gained its upper section during a renovation in 1900, when a new square altar rail was also added. The wooden font was carved by Arvid Källström in 1928, and a wall clock in the church dates from the 1880s. The enclosed pews now in place were installed in the 1950s.

The organ has been rebuilt more than once. An 1882 instrument by Carl Elfström, with eight stops, was replaced internally in 1938 by a new mechanism from Grönvalls orgelbyggeri, and again in 1970 by A. Mårtenssons Orgelfabrik of Lund, though the original 1882 organ façade was retained throughout these changes.

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Gullabo kyrka

Gullabo kyrka is a wooden parish church in Gullabo, in the Torsås area of Kalmar county, belonging to Gullabo församling within the Diocese of Växjö. The present building dates from 1804–05, replacing earlier churches on the same site.

Gullabovägen 13B, 385 92, Gullabo

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