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Ormsjö kapell

Address
Kyrkvägen 2, 91732, Dorotea
Municipality
Dorotea Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Luleå

Ormsjö kapell is a small chapel in Västra Ormsjö, part of Dorotea-Risbäck parish within the Diocese of Luleå, Västerbotten. Simple and rural, it reflects the modest wooden chapel-building tradition of northern Sweden in the mid-twentieth century.



The chapel was built between 1941 and 1944 to designs by the architect Richard Rodling, and formally inaugurated in 1944. It has a timber frame construction with a pitched (saddle) roof, and its exterior walls are clad in light-painted standing wooden panelling. A small open spire topped with a cross rises from the sheet-metal-covered roof.

Inside, the church hall has walls lined with white-painted, porous wood-fibre panels, and a wooden floor, giving the interior a plain, unadorned character typical of small chapels built for local congregations rather than grand ceremonial use.

A separate bell tower (klockstapel) was added in 1950, a common later addition to Swedish rural chapels that initially lacked a proper belfry.

The furnishings are modest: unpainted wooden pews, a plain pulpit, and a harmonium used for services. These simple fittings underline the chapel's function as a practical place of worship for a small, dispersed rural community rather than a building designed to impress visitors.

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Dorotea-Risbäcks församling

Ormsjö kapell

Ormsjö kapell is a small chapel in Västra Ormsjö, part of Dorotea-Risbäck parish within the Diocese of Luleå, Västerbotten. Simple and rural, it reflects the modest wooden chapel-building tradition of northern Sweden in the mid-twentieth century.

Kyrkvägen 2, 91732, Dorotea

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Provider catalogue data: Svenska kyrkan, Platser, CC BY 4.0. Separately credited descriptions retain their stated source and licence terms. Catalogue and visiting data reformatted from the provider. The English guide combines and abridges separately credited sources below.

Provider record updated: 9 Jun 2022. This is not an independent verification date.

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Church data retrieved 24 Sep 2026. Visiting details have not been independently verified.

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