Antens kyrka

The idea for a church here came from local clergy and farmers who, from 1913, collected funds among the farms surrounding Lake Anten. The site chosen stood at Hednaliderna, an old pagan sacrificial place, on land given by two local landowners. The chapel was built in 1914–1915 to designs by the architect Johan Jarlén, who provided his plans without charge, and it was consecrated on Midsummer Day 1915 in the presence of the bishops of both Gothenburg and Skara dioceses.

The building is a simple rectangular brick structure on a natural stone plinth, oriented east–west with its entrance at the west end, and covered by a clay-tiled saddle roof. Its plain, unpretentious form reflects its origins as a locally funded chapel rather than a grand parish church.

The interior has seen several changes over the decades. An early altarpiece of 1917, a copy of Thorvaldsen's figure of Christ, was later replaced by a new altar painting by Erland Forsberg, paired with an altar table made by a joinery in Stora Mellby. Additional candle fittings and small chandeliers, cast at a workshop in Gränna, were added in 2011.

The building underwent renovation work in 1990, when a lavatory was installed in the porch and a new wrought-iron railing was fitted outside the main door, and again around 2000, when damp-damaged stonework and brickwork were repaired, the roof relaid, and a leaning tower corrected. Further renovation followed in 2010.

The church is surrounded by its own churchyard, laid out with open lawns, traditional kerbed graves, and a memorial and ashes grove in the northern section. The first burial there was that of the clergyman who had helped initiate the church's construction. The organisation that built the church, the Anten Church Foundation, continued to run its affairs until 1977, when the church and churchyard were formally transferred to Långared parish.