Kråksmåla kyrka

The current church was built from 1761, with construction led by Magnus Svensson, and it was consecrated in 1762, replacing an earlier chapel on the site. It is a timber building with a rectangular nave, three-sided projections, a straight east end and a north sacristy, with two porches added in a different timber technique. The interior follows a plain hall-church layout with a flat wooden ceiling.

Decorative paintings once covered the ceiling, added in 1766 by a journeyman painter named Zelander, but most were scraped away and painted over during a renovation in 1839. The one exception was the altarpiece, which is painted directly onto the chancel wall rather than on a separate panel; it was later rediscovered after being hidden for a time behind another picture. The subject is the Crucifixion, set within painted drapery decoration, and is thought to be the work of the same Zelander.

Among the church's furnishings are several pieces of medieval sculpture, including a carved figure of Saint George and the Dragon and a Birgitta cabinet attributed to the late fifteenth-century Lübeck carver Stenrath; the cabinet's figure was reproduced on a Swedish postage stamp in 2003. Two fifteenth-century Madonna figures survive, one thought to be Rhenish work, and there is also a sixteenth-century crucifix. The pulpit, built in 1839, incorporates parts of an older one, and much of the original box-pew seating and the gallery front remain from the church's construction.

The font bowl, in glass, was made by the Orrefors designer Sven Palmqvist and acquired in 1956, offering a striking contrast between medieval woodcarving and twentieth-century Swedish design within the same building. The church's bell tower predates the present church and is recorded as early as 1736; the oldest of its four bells carries a Latin inscription and a Meyer foundry date in the 1660s, with an unverified tradition linking its donation to Queen Kristina.

The organ has a layered history: an instrument was moved here from Virserum in 1759, replaced by a new organ in 1846 whose case survives, then rebuilt again in the early twentieth century, and rebuilt once more in 1955 while retaining the older façade. In the eighteenth century the parish was touched by a pietist revival led by a curate, Anders Elfving, whose preaching drew crowds across parish boundaries until church authorities moved him elsewhere; the resulting prosecutions under conventicle law were, according to local historical accounts, the only such case recorded in Småland.