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Gräshagskyrkan

Address
Lovisagatan 10, B
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Växjö

Gräshagskyrkan is a parish church in Jönköping, built to serve a growing suburban district. Completed and consecrated on 1 December 1962, it belongs to the Church of Sweden and stands within Jönköping parish, serving the Gräshagen and Tokarp neighbourhoods.



The need for a district church emerged towards the end of the 1950s, as the surrounding suburbs of Gräshagen and Tokarp developed. The church that resulted was designed by county architect Gösta Planck and was consecrated by Bishop David Lindqvist on 1 December 1962.

Architecturally, the building is a relatively plain example of mid-twentieth-century parish church design, with a free-standing, whitewashed concrete bell tower standing beside the main church structure rather than attached to it.

Inside, the chancel has been dominated since 1991 by a large wall hanging entitled "Vägen inåt och uppåt" ("The way inward and upward"). It was designed by Marianne Nordström and woven by Kirstine Packalén, and was a gift to the church from the local sewing circle.

The church's organ history illustrates how instruments were sometimes moved between congregations during this period. An early organ built in the 1960s by the firm Åkerman & Lund of Knivsta was relocated to Ekhagskyrkan, also in Jönköping, in 1969. It was replaced the same year by a new mechanical organ from the same builder, which remains associated with the church.

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Facilities & accessibility

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  • Wi-Fi
  • Hearing loop

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Jönköpings församling

Gräshagskyrkan

Gräshagskyrkan is a parish church in Jönköping, built to serve a growing suburban district. Completed and consecrated on 1 December 1962, it belongs to the Church of Sweden and stands within Jönköping parish, serving the Gräshagen and Tokarp neighbourhoods.

Lovisagatan 10, B

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Sources & credits

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: 4 May 2026. 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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