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Landsjökyrkan

Address
Kaxholmsvägen 4, 56146, Huskvarna
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Växjö

Landsjökyrkan is a modern parish church in Kaxholmen, Jönköping County, serving the Skärstad-Ölmstad parish within the Diocese of Växjö. Sources disagree on its completion date, but it belongs to Sweden's later twentieth-century wave of purpose-built village churches.



There is some uncertainty about when Landsjökyrkan was actually completed: one source states it was consecrated in 1954, while the Wikipedia article gives 1984, crediting architect John Petersson and engineer Bertil Rudenstam. Visitors should treat the exact date with caution, as the two accounts cannot both be correct.

The building is deliberately plain and light-filled inside, in keeping with the restrained aesthetic common to many Swedish churches of the mid-to-late twentieth century. This simplicity throws attention onto the church's few carefully chosen furnishings rather than elaborate decoration.

The focal point is the chancel wall, where a resurrection crucifix titled "The Victorious Lord" hangs. It was carved by Eva Spångberg, an artist associated with Hjälmseryd, and provides the church's main visual and devotional centrepiece.

Other furnishings, including the altar table, altar rail and pulpit, were made by Stig Höglunds Träsvarveri AB, a woodturning workshop based in nearby Huskvarna, giving the interior a coherent local craftsmanship character.

The church also has a small mechanical organ built in 1984 by J. Künkels Orgelverkstad, modest in scale but typical of the instruments installed in Swedish parish churches of that era.

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Facilities & accessibility

  • Toilet
  • Wi-Fi
  • Hearing loop

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Skärstad-Ölmstads församling

Landsjökyrkan

Landsjökyrkan is a modern parish church in Kaxholmen, Jönköping County, serving the Skärstad-Ölmstad parish within the Diocese of Växjö. Sources disagree on its completion date, but it belongs to Sweden's later twentieth-century wave of purpose-built village churches.

Kaxholmsvägen 4, 56146, Huskvarna

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Church information: Svenska kyrkan, Platser · CC BY 4.0. Each church page includes its credits and visiting notes.

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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: 26 Apr 2023. 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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