Åmots kyrka stands on a hill above the village of Åmot, around 17 kilometres north-west of Ockelbo in Gävleborg. Built in the early twentieth century, it replaced an earlier timber chapel and was praised at its consecration for its striking setting.
The present church was built between 1914 and 1917 on Fröberget, a hillside north of the site's original 1797 timber chapel, which had been constructed in a neoclassical style for the Åmot ironworks community. The new building was designed by the architect Georg Alfred Nilsson and constructed by master builder Gustaf Pettersson of Ockelbo, using slag stone and brick on a granite foundation. According to the parish, Archbishop Nathan Söderblom described it at its consecration on 25 March 1917 as the most beautifully situated church north of the Alps, though this striking claim comes from a single quoted source and cannot be independently confirmed here.
The church has a rectangular nave with a narrower, straight-ended chancel to the east, and a side-set tower on the south-west corner topped by a tall spire clad in tarred black shingles. Inside, the nave ceiling is a wooden barrel vault, while the chancel has a whitewashed star vault. The furnishings are finished in a reddish-brown glaze with dark brown detailing, and in 2001 the rearmost pews were removed.
Among the church's furnishings, the altar is adorned with an oak crucifix carved by the sculptor Tore Strindberg. The pulpit stands on a stepped, whitewashed masonry base matching the walls. The font's bowl, carved from wood in a chalice-like form, is supported by four small wooden columns, and its brass basin with a hammered rim was made by Markus Ax of Gävle in 1917, the same year the church was completed.
The organ was originally built in 1884 by the firm E A Setterquist & Son of Örebro for an earlier location, and its facade dates from that year; the mechanical instrument was moved into the newly built church in 1917, giving Åmots kyrka an organ somewhat older than the building itself.
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Ockelbo församling
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Åmots kyrka stands on a hill above the village of Åmot, around 17 kilometres north-west of Ockelbo in Gävleborg. Built in the early twentieth century, it replaced an earlier timber chapel and was praised at its consecration for its striking setting.
Åmotsvägen 30, 816 95, Åmotsbruk
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