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Holavedskapellet

Address
Sommen Tranås
Municipality
Tranås Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Linköping

Holavedskapellet is a modest twentieth-century chapel serving Säby parish in the Diocese of Linköping, near Tranås in Jönköping County. Though modern and unassuming, it holds a few distinctive furnishings worth noting for visitors interested in Swedish parish churches.



The chapel was built in 1960 to designs by the architect Johannes Dahl, with construction completed in early 1961. Its walls were built with a brick structural frame. A sacristy was added in 1979, constructed of lightweight concrete blocks rather than brick, giving the building a mixed material history despite its relatively short lifespan.

A freestanding bell tower stands near the chapel, erected in 1965 to a design drawn up earlier by Erik Persson in 1953. The gap between design and construction is not explained in the available sources.

Inside, the octagonal font is made of varnished oak, a simple but characterful piece of mid-century church furnishing. The altar decoration is a textile hanging composed by engineer Erik Persson of Tranås and woven in 1979 by Kristine Packalén, its design inspired by a New Testament verse concerning resurrection and life. An electric organ also stands in the chapel, though no details of its build or maker are recorded in the sources available.

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Facilities & accessibility

  • Toilet
  • Hearing loop

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Contact & official information

Tranås pastorat

Tranås pastorat

Holavedskapellet

Holavedskapellet is a modest twentieth-century chapel serving Säby parish in the Diocese of Linköping, near Tranås in Jönköping County. Though modern and unassuming, it holds a few distinctive furnishings worth noting for visitors interested in Swedish parish churches.

Sommen Tranås

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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: 11 Sep 2024. 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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