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Köinge kyrka

Address
Okome församlingshem, Gällaredsv 1
Municipality
Falkenbergs Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Göteborg

Köinge kyrka, in the Halland countryside north-east of Falkenberg, is a late nineteenth-century parish church built to replace a much older medieval building on the same churchyard. It belongs to Okome parish within the Diocese of Gothenburg.



A church is thought to have stood on this site since the second half of the thirteenth century, a small stone building with thick rubble walls, rendered white and oriented east–west. It had no tower, relying instead on a separate wooden bell frame in the churchyard. Over the centuries the medieval church was altered: a chancel and sacristy were added at the east end in 1537, and a porch was built onto the west gable in 1865.

Before the old church was demolished in 1896, the artist Severin Nilsson was commissioned to record its appearance, and a painting of the interior attributed to him is said to hang in the present church. Accounts describe a painted wooden ceiling depicting biblical scenes, a wooden chandelier, and a richly painted pulpit bearing a date of 1589. A carved oak figure of the Madonna and other loose fittings were also noted; some items reportedly ended up in a Gothenburg museum, while others were sold at auction to a private buyer following the church's closure.

The present church was built in 1896 to a design by the Gothenburg architect Adrian C. Peterson, combining Gothic and Romanesque elements, at a reported cost of 40,000 kronor. It stands on higher ground south-west of the old churchyard, which was substantially enlarged as a result. The building consists of a nave aligned north–south, with a three-sided chancel to the north and a tower with the main entrance to the south; short transepts project to east and west. The exterior walls are roughcast and painted white, the roofs are slated, and the tower has a tent roof covered in zinc sheeting.

Among the furnishings inside are two font basins: one of black granite dated to the twelfth century, standing in the left transept, and another of dark greenstone from the fourteenth century in the right transept, with an accompanying basin from the eighteenth century. The altarpiece is said to date from the seventeenth century. The mechanical organ was built in 1896 by Salomon Molander and later renovated in the twentieth century.

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Okome församling

Köinge kyrka

Köinge kyrka, in the Halland countryside north-east of Falkenberg, is a late nineteenth-century parish church built to replace a much older medieval building on the same churchyard. It belongs to Okome parish within the Diocese of Gothenburg.

Okome församlingshem, Gällaredsv 1

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Provider record updated: 14 Aug 2026. This is not an independent verification date.

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