Akebäck kyrka

The church was built in the later twelfth century, with the nave, chancel and apse dating from that first phase. Its sturdy west tower was added around the mid-thirteenth century, featuring round-arched, brick-decorated sound openings set with small columns. Shortly afterwards the nave roof was raised to give the building a steeper, more imposing profile.

The main entrance is a carved Romanesque portal in the tower's south face, and there is a smaller Romanesque doorway on the south side of the chancel. The nave's original south doorway was relocated to the tower's north side when the tower was built, though it was later bricked up; a north doorway in the tower has likewise been closed. A restoration in 1931–1932, carried out to a design by the architect Sven Brandel, added a sacristy on the north side of the nave.

A notable carved detail survives from the twelfth century: a relief in the chancel portal showing a reclining man holding a hammer. One story suggests it commemorates a worker who died during the church's construction, though it has also been suggested that the stone more plausibly depicts a stonemason with his tool and was simply built into the wall in the wrong position. Outside the church stands a three-metre-high picture stone, discovered built into the nave's outer wall during the 1931–1932 sacristy works.

Inside, the church retains a largely unified decorative scheme from the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, including acanthus-leaf paintings on the pews and nave ceiling. The chancel's original masonry barrel vault contains three clay acoustic pots set into the stonework, intended to improve the building's sound and still noted for giving the church a distinctive acoustic quality. Furnishings include a limestone font from the thirteenth century with a sixteen-sided basin, a wooden crucifix from the fifteenth century in the altarpiece, and an altarpiece and pulpit dating from the seventeenth century. A large chandelier, given to the church in 1850 by master joiner Johan Pettersson, also hangs in the nave.

The church has two bells, the younger given in 1993 in memory of the physician Sverker Endrell. Its mechanical organ was built in 1959 by Andreas Thulesius of Klintehamn and includes a stop popularly known as fågelsång, or birdsong.