Skogsö kapell is a small chapel on Skogsö churchyard, near Baggensstäket in the Stockholm archipelago, belonging to Saltsjöbaden parish. Set within a peaceful burial ground, it is valued as a place for quiet walks and reflection as much as for church services.
The chapel was built in 1919–21 to designs by the architect Erik Bülow-Hübe, as the churchyard itself was being laid out. It was consecrated on Ascension Day, 5 May 1921, and for its first fifty years or so served almost exclusively as a burial chapel rather than for regular worship.
The building is constructed of masonry on a tall granite plinth, with a narrower, straight-ended chancel to the west and a symmetrical entrance porch to the east. Tall round-arched windows line each side, and the roof is a distinctive curved, dome-like form crowned with an open lantern and cross. Both the domed roof over the nave and the saddle roofs of the chancel and porch are clad in green copper sheeting, giving the chapel a recognisable silhouette against the surrounding woodland.
Inside, the panelled ceiling retains its original decorative paintings by Filip Månsson. The narrow chancel has sloping inner walls and a plastered ceiling, with the altar set into a round-arched niche. Floors are of patterned brick in the chapel and cut limestone slabs in the porch.
An interior restoration in 1986 lightened the colour scheme, and a more thorough renovation in 1991 adapted the fittings so the chapel could be used for services, baptisms and weddings as well as funerals. Much of the furnishing seen today—altar front, pulpit, font, hymn board and organ—dates from that 1991 work and was designed and decorated by the artist Gunvor Westelius. A large wooden crucifix hanging above the altar was carved by the sculptor August Filip Pettersson, and a light-bearer symbolising the tree of life was designed in 1996 by Elwing Brask.
A short distance east of the chapel stands an open wooden bell frame, also designed by Bülow-Hübe. The bell was originally intended to hang in the chapel's own lantern, but concerns that the ringing might crack the structure led to a separate freestanding bell tower instead. A memorial garden was added to the churchyard's eastern section in 1972, and the remains of the Stäket redoubt lie nearby at Baggensstäket.
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Skogsö kapell is a small chapel on Skogsö churchyard, near Baggensstäket in the Stockholm archipelago, belonging to Saltsjöbaden parish. Set within a peaceful burial ground, it is valued as a place for quiet walks and reflection as much as for church services.
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