Östhammars kyrka

Building began in 1663 after the town was granted permission to construct its own church in 1660, and the church was finally consecrated in 1675 following a long construction period. The rubble-stone structure consists of a rectangular nave with a three-sided chancel, and successive campaigns reshaped the building considerably: a sacristy was added to the north in 1735–1736, the church was lengthened eastward in 1760–1761 to create the present chancel, and extended westward again in 1770–1772. A bell tower proved too dilapidated to repair by 1829, and it was not until 1845 that the current tower, topped with an octagonal lantern, was completed, using stone taken from the old churchyard wall.

The interior seen today owes much to a 1925 restoration led by architect Sven Brandel, intended to recover the character the church had in the late eighteenth century; this is when the current open pew arrangement was introduced. A further extensive interior renovation followed in 1989.

Among the furnishings, the pulpit was made around 1740 by Olof Gerdman; repainted in the nineteenth century, it had its original colours restored in 1960. The altarpiece dates from the seventeenth century and depicts the Crucifixion in oil. The altar table itself is a later, nineteenth-century addition, but it incorporates an older carved wooden relief of the institution of the Last Supper, thought to have adorned the church's first altar in the later 1600s.

Silver communion vessels were given to the church in the seventeenth century by the county judge Niclas Skunck, and a flagon was later donated by his son and daughter-in-law. An oval wafer box, dated by its marks to 1799, was made by an inspector in Gävle. A side altar in the chancel holds an 1873 painting of Christ in Gethsemane by Carl Staaff. Three bronze chandeliers hang in the nave's central aisle, the earliest gift dating from 1683, with further chandeliers added in 1734 and 1760, and three church bells in the tower were cast in 1742.

The church had no organ before 1773. Its first instrument, built in 1811, was later moved to Kalmar; the present main organ dates from 1875, built by Erik Adolf Setterquist of Örebro, with a smaller chancel organ added in 1998.