Södra Möckleby kyrka

The present stone church has medieval origins. According to sources, a Romanesque church from the 1100s once stood on this spot, with a nave, chancel and apse, and a tower topped by a pyramid-shaped roof, known from a 1634 sketch by J. H. Rhezelius. The apse featured decorative external pilaster strips (lisener), a detail that, together with its north doorway, places it among Öland's oldest stone churches.

In the 1840s there was discussion about uniting the parish with neighbouring Smedby, but in 1840 both parishes instead received royal permission to build separately. The medieval church was largely demolished around 1850–1851, though its tower was retained and given a new lantern on a curved roof. The new church, built of limestone by Peter Isberg to designs by Johan Fredrik Åbom, was consecrated in September 1851. It follows a hall-church plan with an apsidal chancel to the east, the tower to the west, a sacristy to the north and an extension to the south; large round-arched windows and portals reflect the architectural taste of the period, with the vaulted ceiling's threefold division echoing the early stirrings of a Gothic Revival style in Sweden.

A century later, restoration work in 1951 attempted to recall the church's older character: the chancel, altar and altarpiece were reset into an apse niche, a stone altar was built, and older carved fragments were reused. During this work the stone slab from an earlier altar was uncovered by archaeological investigation. The church's interior today largely reflects a further renovation carried out in 1983, when the altar received a wooden cladding and the current altarpiece was reconstructed after an older 1749 original attributed to Peter Buschberg of Kalmar, showing Mary Magdalene at the cross.

Other furnishings of note include a pulpit dated 1780, made by Jonas Berggren and painted by Anders G. Wadsten, and a votive ship model of a full-rigger from 1929, a traditional maritime offering found in many Swedish coastal churches. The organ has a layered history, beginning with an instrument acquired from Ås kyrka in 1884, followed by a new organ built in 1903 by E. A. Setterqvist & Son of Örebro, later altered in 1951 and again in 1964.