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Lansjärvs kyrka

Address
KYRKVÄGEN 10, 956 98, Lansjärv
Municipality
Överkalix Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Luleå

Lansjärvs kyrka is a wooden parish church in the village of Lansjärv, in the far north of Sweden, belonging to Överkalix parish in the Diocese of Luleå. It is a modest twentieth-century building typical of the region's later church architecture.



The church was built in 1942 to designs by the architect Lars Bertil Höök. It has a simple rectangular plan, with exterior walls clad in white-painted horizontal timber panelling. Along the long sides, rectangular windows divided by glazing bars let light into the interior, and the roof is a hipped, sheet-metal covering topped by a small ridge turret bearing a cross.

Inside, the church has a wooden floor and fixed pews arranged in open blocks. The ceiling and walls are lined with white-painted masonite board, and the central part of the ceiling forms a barrel vault, giving the plain interior a slightly more shaped, enclosed feel above the congregation.

Standing apart from the church is a wooden bell tower, designed in 1941 by Einar Lundberg. The bell itself, 80 centimetres in diameter, was cast in 1953 by the Bergholtz bell foundry — a reminder that the freestanding bell tower and its bell were completed slightly later than the church building itself.

The altarpiece was painted by Torsten Nordberg of Stockholm and was donated to the church by the local sewing circle, the Lansjärv syförening, a detail that reflects the way many small rural Swedish churches were furnished through local community effort. The church's textiles were supplied by the Föreningen Kyrklig Konst (the Society for Ecclesiastical Art) in Stockholm, an organisation that provided vestments and textiles to numerous parish churches across the country during the twentieth century.

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Överkalix församling

Lansjärvs kyrka

Lansjärvs kyrka is a wooden parish church in the village of Lansjärv, in the far north of Sweden, belonging to Överkalix parish in the Diocese of Luleå. It is a modest twentieth-century building typical of the region's later church architecture.

KYRKVÄGEN 10, 956 98, Lansjärv

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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: 25 Apr 2024. This is not an independent verification date.

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