Konungsunds kyrka

The present church was built in 1801–1802 to replace a small medieval stone church that had stood on the same rocky knoll, reputedly since the 13th century, though the precise founding date recorded in later sources is questioned by historians given the young age of the king to whom it is traditionally credited. Designed by architect Olof Tempelman and built under master builder Casper Seurling, the new building is a fine example of neoclassical church architecture, with a tower, semicircular chancel and a nave lit by large round-arched windows beneath a low saddle roof. A grand south portal with heavy columns and a triangular pediment forms the principal external feature, while the tower is capped by a pyramid-shaped spire.

Inside, the single-nave hall church has a barrel vault and semicircular apse. The altarpiece, painted by Pehr Hörberg at the time the church was built, is set within a carved surround by sculptor Carl Fredrik Beurling. Much older is the pulpit, made in 1650 by joiner Anders Larsson and later painted in 1689 by Måns Eriksson Grijs; it was retained from the earlier medieval church, along with a font dated to the 1780s.

When the old church was demolished, many of its furnishings were sold at auction, including a triumphal crucifix, statues of the Virgin and Child and a Pietà, an older altarpiece and painted panels depicting Moses and Aaron, and a portrait of King Gustav II Adolf. Two runic stones uncovered during the demolition were kept and now stand in the churchyard.

The church's organ, built in 1853 by Anders Jonsson, an organist and self-taught organ builder from Ringarum, is considered remarkable for its powerful tone despite an unassuming plain case with no visible facade pipes. Of the nine organs Jonsson is known to have built, only this one and another at Djursdala survive.

Among the church's smaller treasures are a silver christening bowl made by Stockholm silversmith Isak Sauter and given in 1758, and vestments and textiles donated by local nobility in the 18th century. The two bells in the tower are recorded as having cracked during the funeral tolling for Queen Ulrika Eleonora the Younger in 1742, after which they were recast.