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Munkegärdekyrkan

Address
Munkegärde Centrum 1
Municipality
Kungälvs Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Göteborg

Munkegärdekyrkan, in Kungälv, is the newest church of its parish, built at the end of the twentieth century. It combines contemporary architecture with an active weekday community life alongside its Sunday worship.

Munkegärdekyrkan was designed by the architectural practice of Per Lundberg and completed in 1996. The dedication mass took place on 15 September that year, attended by Bishop Lars Eckerdal of the Diocese of Gothenburg.

The building has a long rectangular plan, with the nave forming the tallest and widest section. Unusually, the chancel is placed at the western end of the building, with the main entrance to the north. The structure has a concrete frame, exterior walls faced in yellow brick, and a pitched roof covered with red single-curved roof tiles.

Inside, the fittings are notably restrained and modern in style. The font consists of a basin supported on a white-lazured oak stand, with an octagonal upper section resting on a square, hourglass-shaped shaft. The altar is formed from a slab set on an open oak frame, built using stave-glued, oiled oak. Rather than a traditional pulpit, the church has an ambo made in the same stave-glued oiled oak, echoing the altar's design.

Munkegärdekyrkan belongs to the Kungälv-Ytterby parish within the Diocese of Gothenburg, having been part of the former Kungälv parish before a reorganisation in 2015.

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Facilities & accessibility

  • Toilet
  • Hearing loop

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Kungälv-Ytterby församling

Kungälv-Ytterby församling

Munkegärdekyrkan

Munkegärdekyrkan, in Kungälv, is the newest church of its parish, built at the end of the twentieth century. It combines contemporary architecture with an active weekday community life alongside its Sunday worship.

Munkegärde Centrum 1

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