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Södra Bergnäs Kyrka

Address
Kyrkvägen 6, 938 31, ARJEPLOG
Municipality
Arjeplogs Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Luleå

Södra Bergnäs Kyrka stands on Bergnäsudden, on the eastern shore of Lake Storavan in Norrbotten. This wooden church was built in 1903–1904 to designs by architect A G Brodersson, who took Norra Bergnäs chapel and Arjeplog church as his models.



The church consists of a nave with a narrower chancel to the east and a sturdy tower to the west. Behind the altar, east of the chancel, lies the sacristy. Inside, tall, narrow windows and an angled roof give the church interior its distinctive character. A renovation carried out in 1925–1926 saw the timber building clad with boarding, giving it much of its present external appearance.

Among the church's furnishings is its bell, cast in 1903 by the Bergholtz foundry and bearing a short inscription dedicating glory to God alone. The organ, with five stops, is older than the church itself, having been built in Boden in 1882 by Nils Oskar Alm and presumably brought in when the new building was completed. The textiles used in the church were donated by local church sewing circles, a reminder of the everyday communal effort that furnished many rural Swedish churches of this period.

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Södra Bergnäs Kyrka

Södra Bergnäs Kyrka stands on Bergnäsudden, on the eastern shore of Lake Storavan in Norrbotten. This wooden church was built in 1903–1904 to designs by architect A G Brodersson, who took Norra Bergnäs chapel and Arjeplog church as his models.

Kyrkvägen 6, 938 31, ARJEPLOG

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Provider record updated: 9 Jun 2022. This is not an independent verification date.

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