Fristads kyrka

The decision to build a shared church for the parishes of Fristad and Gingri was taken in 1830, and the new building rose just north of the site of Fristad's medieval church, which was then demolished along with the old Gingri church. It was completed in 1850 by the master builder Petter Pettersson of Sandhult, one of the so-called Sandhult builders responsible for around twenty churches in the district, and this was among his last commissions.

The church has a rectangular nave with a semicircular chancel to the east and a tower to the west, all built of stone with roughcast walls pierced by large round-arched windows. The nave and vestry roofs are slate-covered, while the rounded chancel roof and the tower are clad in copper, the tower topped by an open, copper-clad lantern crowned with a cross. Inside, the church is notably light and spacious, an impression reinforced by a major renovation in 1972–73 that adjusted the floor plan, added a small side room known as the Gingri room beneath the gallery, and introduced a new stone floor, pews and altar table.

Several older furnishings survive. The altarpiece, depicting a Golgotha scene, dates from 1753 and was brought from the earlier church, though its gilded frame was added a century later. The pulpit, with its sounding board and five-sided body, was carved in 1862, while a green marble font dates from 1916. At the back of the church stand wooden sculptures of biblical figures made in 1958 by Ivar Lindekrantz. Three bells hang in the tower, two of them of medieval origin, one inherited from the demolished Gingri church.

The story of Gingri church itself is remembered nearby: demolished in 1862, its foundations were excavated in 1928, and a memorial bell-tower was erected on the old church site in 1937, with a hedge marking the outline of the vanished building. A separate ruined church at Längjum, north of Fristad, survived until the 1860s, when its stone was reused in railway construction; a memorial stone now marks that site too.