Martin Luthers kyrka

The present church emerged from an architectural competition launched in 1965, after Halmstad's expanding eastern suburbs prompted the creation of a new parish. The competition was won by Stockholm architects Bertil Engstrand and Hans Speek, whose winning design was built between 1968 and 1970 and consecrated on 19 December 1970 by Bishop Bertil Gärtner.

Rather than reaching upwards, the building asserts itself through material and form: it is low, deliberately unshowy, and has no tower, with bell carriers standing at the same height as the church itself. The exterior is dominated by walls clad in stainless, acid-resistant steel plate and a rippling, wave-shaped roof, with the entrance marked by a curved canopy and a simple plate-clad cross. The complex is arranged around enclosed courtyards and set within a park planted with acacia trees, a detail said to echo the acacia wood used for the Tabernacle and its furnishings described in the Book of Exodus.

Inside, deep red-brown corten steel lines much of the walls and ceiling, contrasted with sections of white concrete and a floor of Öland limestone. Light enters sparingly through narrow vertical and horizontal glass slits, with a band of daylight falling across the choir and the simple three-part pine altar. At the rear of the nave lies the smaller Rosenkapellet (Rose Chapel), a distinct space within the larger one.　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　

Several notable furnishings feature in the church. A triumphal crucifix carved in pine hangs on the end wall, and the architect Hans Speek designed the altar, pulpit and font, all worked in pine. Above the font hangs a bronze votive ship in the form of Noah's Ark, and tapestries by Barbro Nilsson and Maryn Hemmingsson depict the Star of Bethlehem and the Luther Rose respectively. A stained-glass window by Erik Olson was added to the choir in 1988, and the building also incorporates the former 1958 small church, now used as a youth centre, whose exterior form and materials were unified with the rest of the complex.

The church contains two organs: a three-manual mechanical instrument built by Grönlunds Orgelbyggeri in 1970 and later expanded, and a smaller five-stop mechanical organ from 1958 by Olof Hammarberg, housed in the Rosenkapellet.