Möja kyrka

An earlier chapel is known to have stood on roughly the same site since at least the 1630s, a knuttimrat (log-built) structure with a tarred bark roof that was demolished in 1768 to make way for the present building. The current timber church, raised in 1768–69, has a rectangular nave with a sacristy to the north and a porch to the south. Its tower, added in the 1880s in a neo-Gothic style with a lantern, is a familiar silhouette among the outer archipelago's churches, and the exterior is finished in pale grey boarding with brown trim.

The interior seen by visitors today largely dates from a lengthy restoration that began in 1924 and was not completed until 1938. The chancel floor is raised a step above the nave, and the space around the altar was designed to give it a dignified setting. Above the altar hangs an oil painting of Christ on the cross, generally dated to the early 18th century, set within a later 18th-century frame. The pulpit, positioned on the north wall between chancel and nave, is a 1924 copy modelled on an earlier 17th-century pulpit; that original is preserved in a small museum housed in the tower, along with older drawings of the church.

Other notable furnishings include a wooden font in Gustavian style from the late 18th century, with a marble bowl and decorative marbling rediscovered under later grey paint. Two older paintings are of particular interest: a 16th-century work depicting the betrothal of Saint Catherine of Alexandria, and a 17th-century copy of Rubens' Lance Thrust. Three chandeliers hang in the nave, the oldest a cast brass piece from the late 17th century decorated with a double eagle.

A striking three-masted votive ship hangs in the chancel. Sources differ on its origin: one account describes it as a copy made by Wilhelm Andersson of Lökaö, while another dates the copy to 1926, made after the parish lost an earlier votive ship in 1885; in both cases, the original is said to be held in a museum, though the sources disagree on which one, giving the Historical Museum and the Nordic Museum respectively.

The church bells reflect several periods: the largest bell dates from 1794 and the smallest from 1745, both cast by G Meyer of Stockholm, while a middle bell was added in 1913. The organ has also been rebuilt more than once, most recently in 1982, incorporating a façade retained from an 1855 instrument.