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Nås kyrka

Address
Strandvägen 1, 78692, DALA-JÄRNA
Municipality
Vansbro Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Västerås

Nås kyrka is a parish church serving Järna with Nås and Äppelbo församling in Dalarna, within the Diocese of Västerås. This modest stone building replaced an earlier medieval church on the same site and retains several older furnishings alongside a much-altered 20th-century interior.



The present church was built in stone during 1794–1795 under the direction of county master builder Oscar Sjöström, replacing a medieval church that had previously stood on the site and was demolished. The building is a rectangular nave with a straight-ended chancel to the east, a sacristy attached beyond the chancel, and a tower at the west end of the nave.

A substantial reconstruction between 1913 and 1915 changed the character of the interior considerably: the church was divided into three aisles, and the original barrel vaulting was removed in favour of flat ceilings. Visitors familiar with the plainer late-18th-century exterior may be surprised by this more elaborate internal division.

Despite the later remodelling, a few objects survive from the earlier medieval church, most notably a medieval crucifix and an epitaph dated 1698, both offering a tangible link to the building that stood here before the present one was constructed.

The church has two organs of note. A two-manual pipe organ was built in 1964 by Olof Hammarberg Orgelbyggeri of Gothenburg. A smaller chancel organ, built in 1986 by Ålems Orgelverkstad for Figeholm church, was later moved to Nås kyrka in 2019, giving the building an instrument with its own separate earlier history elsewhere.

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Järna med Nås och Äppelbo församling

Nås kyrka

Nås kyrka is a parish church serving Järna with Nås and Äppelbo församling in Dalarna, within the Diocese of Västerås. This modest stone building replaced an earlier medieval church on the same site and retains several older furnishings alongside a much-altered 20th-century interior.

Strandvägen 1, 78692, DALA-JÄRNA

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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: 9 Jun 2022. This is not an independent verification date.

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