Edestads kyrka

The church was raised in the mid-1200s beside Edestad källa, a spring long revered in pre-Christian times as one of southern Scandinavia's notable places of pilgrimage. People are said to have gathered there, particularly at midsummer, seeking cures for illness or protection from misfortune through offerings at the water. The spring is reportedly still visible on the church's north side. The original unggotisk (early Gothic) building comprised a nave and chancel, with a sacristy and porch added in the later Middle Ages.

Outside stands what is described as Blekinge's oldest surviving bell tower, holding two bells cast in 1688 and 1813.

Sources differ on some of the church's furnishings. One account describes a triumphal crucifix over the chancel arch dated to the fourteenth century, alongside a Madonna image from the late fifteenth century. Another source states that the church's celebrated old triumphal crucifix, known as the "Kornguden" (Corn God) and once carried in procession around the fields to bless the harvest, is now kept at Blekinge Museum, while a different Christ figure and a wooden cross—said to be a Baltic work from the later fifteenth century, now missing its feet and hands—have been returned to the church. Visitors should be aware these two descriptions of the crucifix cannot both be taken as current fact.

The pulpit is also inconsistently dated across sources, variously placed in the mid-1600s or the seventeenth century more generally, with later repainting and restoration noted. Its maker is unrecorded. The pulpit is carved with figures of the evangelists, John the Baptist and the prophet Jonah, with relief scenes from the life of Christ on the panels; the canopy above is said to depict the Last Judgement, with Christ enthroned above a crowd of figures, the righteous led toward light and the damned driven by devils toward a monstrous head.

The chancel ceiling carries a Baroque painting from 1730 showing Christ with a victory banner amid acanthus ornament. The Rococo altarpiece, with a Crucifixion painting attributed to I. Limnell, was installed in 1763, and further changes—including a turned-baluster altar rail—were made in the 1850s.

Wooden sculptures once in the church, including a figure said to represent Saint Olaf, are recorded as later fragments displayed at a museum in Karlskrona. The church also has an organ, originally built in 1875 and later replaced by a mechanical instrument installed in 1950.