Gideonsbergskyrkan

The idea for a church in this rapidly expanding district dates back to 1955, when a local committee began fundraising for a building. Progress was slow until state support, in the form of an arranged labour-market construction project, allowed work to begin in 1972. The architect Peter-Paul Hoffman designed a deliberately low building set among the trees of the old manor park, so as not to compete visually with its surroundings. Bishop Sven Silén consecrated the church on 1 December 1973.

The building is sunk into the ground (in souterrain style), with a central entrance flanked by the church hall on one side and parish rooms on the other. Brick dominates the exterior and much of the interior, including the altar, while the joinery and ceiling are of pale pine. Light enters mainly from the north, with a folded window near the chancel and a cross-shaped window at the rear letting in western light. Rather than chandeliers, ten simple wreaths of lamps hang from the pew ends.

Originally the pews were arranged in a single block without a central aisle; the surrounding walkway was intended to evoke the Via Dolorosa, the path Christ walked to Golgotha, and fifteen paintings by Leon Szuter depicting this journey were hung along the walls, accompanied by short texts by the poet Bo Setterlind. This arrangement proved impractical, and in 1985 the pew block was divided in two to create a conventional central aisle, at which point the pulpit was moved and a new organ installed.

Among the church's furnishings is a textile altarpiece, Härlighetens himmel ("Heaven of Glory"), created by the textile artist Birgitta Hagnell-Lindén and inspired by a well-known Swedish hymn. The hexagonal communion vessels were made by the silversmith Wiwen Nilsson in 1959, and the font bowl is the work of silversmith Karlheinz Sauer. A low, blue-painted freestanding bell tower stands in front of the entrance, its modest height again chosen to avoid overshadowing the surrounding trees; its unusual form has been likened by some observers to an air-defence watchtower or even a lunar lander.

A major renovation in 2015 updated the building's services, including electrics, drainage, ventilation and heating, and improved the parish hall; the church was reconsecrated by Bishop Mikael Mogren on the first Sunday of Advent that year.