Julita kyrka

The earliest parts of the church, including the tower, are usually dated to around 1200, though one source suggests building work may have begun as early as the 1100s. The church was extended eastwards and given a sacristy, probably in the 1300s, with vaults added in the 1500s. Further enlargement followed in the 1400s and again in the 1700s, when the building broadly took on its present form; the choir was completed in 1763, the same year the altarpiece was installed as a gift from the von Ungern-Sternberg family.

Inside, the vaulted ceilings carry decorative paintings of flowers and biblical scenes, traditionally attributed to a painter known only as the "Julita Master", working around 1600. These were later limewashed over and only rediscovered in the early twentieth century, though the restoration at that time is said to have been carried out rather insensitively. The paintings in the eastern vault depict the four evangelists, along with Moses, Christ as Salvator Mundi, and the Presentation in the Temple; further biblical imagery appears in the other vaults.

Other notable furnishings include a pulpit from the 1720s, donated by Conrad Ribbing and his wife Ebba Charlotta Douglas, and a font carved from Kolmården marble. In the choir stands the Ryning family funerary monument, dating from the early 1600s, while a burial chapel was added to the south side of the church around 1690.

The church's organ has a long and layered history: an instrument built by Carl Wåhlström in 1769 was rebuilt behind its original façade first in 1857 and again in 1907, before a further new organ was installed behind the same historic Wåhlström front in 1961, at which point Wåhlström's original façade pipes were restored to sounding use.