Älmeboda kyrka

The present stone church was built in 1876–77 to designs by the architect Ludvig Hedin, replacing a medieval church some distance to the north that had become dilapidated and too small for the growing congregation. Disagreement over the choice of site delayed the project for years before Rävemåla was finally agreed upon; once the new building was finished, the old church was abandoned and gradually fell into ruin.

The church is built in a historicising mixed style, oriented north–south with the tower and main entrance to the north and the chancel and sacristy to the south. The tower has round-arched, Romanesque-style openings, a clock, and a tall neo-Gothic spire topped with a cross. Inside, the three-aisled nave has a barrel vault over the central aisle and coffered ceilings in the side aisles. It was consecrated on 19 September 1877 by Bishop Henrik Gustaf Hultman.

Among the furnishings, a triumphal crucifix believed to date from the 15th century, thought to be of North German workmanship, was brought from the old medieval church and now hangs in a lit recess above the altarpiece, which was painted in 1892 by the church painter Ludvig Frid of Skede. The pulpit retains its sounding board, and an hourglass dated 1719, decorated with an angel holding a scythe and hourglass, survives among the older fittings. Two fonts are preserved: a carved elm font in the chancel and a stone font in the baptismal chapel, alongside a glass altar cross made at the Lindshammar glassworks.

Of the church's three bells, the largest carries no inscription, the middle bell was cast in 1751 by Andreas Wetterholtz of Malmö, and the smallest dates from 1684, making it the oldest surviving object directly linked to worship on the site.

The church organ has a layered history: an original instrument of 13 stops was built in 1758 by Jonas Wistenius of Linköping, replaced in 1881 by a 22-stop organ by Carl August Johansson of Hovmantorp, then rebuilt in 1933 by Mårtensson's organ workshop in Lund behind the 1881 façade. A further rebuild in 1990–91 by Åkerman & Lund Orgelbyggeri in Knivsta sought to recreate elements of the earlier instrument, and the organ today has 25 stops.

According to local tradition connected to the abandoned medieval church, its old elm font was said to have been carved from the very tree that gave the village its former name, Elmeboda, and wooden staves once kept there were said to have been used in a legendary army led by the folk heroine Blenda; both objects have since disappeared, and the stories should be treated as local legend rather than established fact.