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Östmarks kyrka

Address
685 97, Östmark
Municipality
Torsby Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Karlstad

Östmarks kyrka is a wooden church in the Röjdan valley at Östmark, around twenty kilometres north-west of Torsby in Värmland. Built in the 1760s, it belongs to the Church of Sweden's Östmark parish within the Diocese of Karlstad.



The church is the first to have stood on this site, built between 1761 and 1765 from horizontal log timber on a natural stone foundation, and consecrated in July 1765. Its cross-shaped plan includes an extended sacristy to the east and a tower to the west, with the exterior clad in red-painted shingles during the 1770s. Rounded arched windows, painted grey-green, punctuate the walls, and entrances lead in through the gable ends of the transepts as well as through the porch at the base of the tower, each sheltered by a domed timber vestibule.

The tower narrows in three stages towards a tall shingle-clad spire topped with a weathervane cockerel, while the steep hipped roofs throughout are covered in tarred shingles. Inside, the plain white-painted panelling and the pair of crossing barrel vaults overhead give the nave a light, orderly character. The chancel is raised above the rest of the church and separated by a low white timber screen with a lattice pattern.

Among the furnishings, the pulpit on the north side of the chancel dates from the late seventeenth century and was brought from Västra Ämterviks kyrka; it has an octagonal body with panelled fields and a matching sounding board above. The altarpiece, designed in the 1930s by the architect Bror Almqvist, incorporates an older oil painting from the 1760s depicting the Crucifixion. A wooden font from 1795 stands on the south side of the chancel, paired with a silver bowl made by the silversmith Sigurd Persson and given to the church in 1967.

The church underwent its most significant restoration in 1934–1935 under the architect Bror Almquist, when the interior was repainted, stained-glass windows were added to the chancel, and older fittings were conserved; the church was reconsecrated in July 1935. A further restoration in 1965, guided by architects Ingeborg Wærn Bugge and Karl Gustav Norström, gave the interior its present lighter colour scheme of grey and blue tones.

The organ on the west gallery has origins going back to an 1877 instrument by E A Setterquist & Son, whose neoclassical façade survives; a new pneumatic organ was built into it by the same firm in 1935 and later reworked in 1982.

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Östmarks kyrka

Östmarks kyrka is a wooden church in the Röjdan valley at Östmark, around twenty kilometres north-west of Torsby in Värmland. Built in the 1760s, it belongs to the Church of Sweden's Östmark parish within the Diocese of Karlstad.

685 97, Östmark

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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: 13 Sep 2023. This is not an independent verification date.

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