Långemåla kyrka

An earlier timber church is thought to have stood on this site from around the mid-1600s. According to a drawing made in 1750, it had a nave with high-set windows, a straight-ended chancel to the east, and a porch to the west, with the bells housed in a separate wooden bell tower since the church itself had none. This older building was demolished once its replacement was ready for use.

The present church was built between 1828 and 1834 by master builder Sven Nilsson to designs by the architect Samuel Enander, in the Karl Johan style typical of the period. It was consecrated in August 1832 by Bishop Anders Carlsson af Kullberg. The building consists of a rectangular nave with an eastern chancel and a narrower, semicircular sacristy behind it. A tower with the main entrance and porch stands at the west end, topped with an enclosed lantern and cross, while further doors open from the south side and into the sacristy from the north-east. The roofs are of tile over the nave, wood shingle over the sacristy, and copper over the tower.

Inside, the church follows the hall-church plan common to its era, with a barrel-vaulted wooden ceiling giving a sense of light and space. The chancel originally held a combined altar and pulpit, a common Lutheran arrangement, but this was dismantled during a 1908 renovation in favour of a separate altarpiece and pulpit, the latter moved to the north wall and later fitted with a sounding board.

Among the furnishings, the altarpiece, painted in 1914 by Ivan Hoflund of Kalmar, depicts Christ at Gethsemane, set within a marbled surround crowned by a broken pediment and sunburst motif that once stood above the earlier altar-pulpit. A set of communion vessels dates from the 1730s. Two carved altar-cabinet doors survive from the 1400s; one is notable for showing what is believed to be the earliest known image of Växjö Cathedral, and two figures that once decorated the inside of these doors have also been preserved. Five further carved figures date from the 1600s, and the font, carved from Öland limestone, was added in 1954.

The church's pipe organ has a layered history: an instrument by Pehr Zacharias Strand of Stockholm was installed in 1838, and although replaced internally in 1954 by a Danish-built mechanical organ, it still stands behind the original 1838 case front.