Röra kyrka

The earliest church here is thought to have been a timber building, possibly dating from the 1100s, though this is not certain. It was replaced in 1635 by a stone church, which itself was demolished in 1846 to make way for the present building, designed by the architect Johannes Gunnarsson. Construction finished in 1848, but consecration was delayed until 22 May 1852 because the tower required rebuilding; it was eventually consecrated by Bishop Anders Bruhn. The tower hood was altered again in 1912, and a new sacristy was added at the east end in 1986.

The church is a simple hall design with a nave and a three-sided chancel of full width. A round window pierces the tower, whose anchor irons record the building date, and a small copper-clad spire with a gilded cross tops the tower roof.

The altarpiece, designed by the sculptor Rudenbäck with figures by Carl Johan Dyfverman, shows the crucifixion flanked by Mary and the disciple John, together with the four evangelists. An earlier altarpiece from the 1600s, depicting the crucifixion, the institution of the Lord's Supper and the resurrection, now hangs on the south wall. Rudenbäck also designed the pulpit, described as painted grey with gilded ornament in a Neoclassical style consistent with the rebuilt church; a plaster dove made for it by Dyfverman broke and was later replaced with a wooden one. The older seventeenth-century pulpit, painted with the evangelists and biblical verses from the Danish Bible, now stands on the organ loft.

The soapstone font is the most notable survival from the medieval church, carved in the earlier twelfth century. Its cylindrical bowl carries biblical scenes within arcading, along with interlace ornament at the rim that recalls Viking-age and rune-stone carving; scholars have linked it to a similar font at Torsby church, suggesting both may be the work of the same unidentified carver.//Some sources attribute the church bells' age loosely: the larger bell was recast in 1702 and may predate the 1635 stone church, while the smaller bell was recast in 1795 and again in 1881. A votive ship, given to the church in 1746 by Lieutenant Johan Lilja, hangs in the porch, and other fragments from the earlier church buildings are preserved and displayed inside.

The present organ was built in 1959 by the Hammarberg workshop, replacing an 1883 instrument by Salomon Molander; a new stop was added in 1982. The church forms part of the Pilgrim's Route on Orust.