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Säters kyrka

Address
Södra Kyrkogatan 1, 783 30, Säter
Municipality
Säters Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Västerås

Säters kyrka is the parish church of Säterbygdens församling in Västerås diocese, serving the town of Säter in Dalarna. The present building dates from the late 1770s and stands on the site of two earlier churches.



The current church was built in 1778–1779, replacing an earlier stone church consecrated in 1635, which itself had succeeded a wooden church used from 1628. That seventeenth-century stone building proved poorly constructed and was demolished in 1778. The tower was rebuilt in 1806–1807 after the original was found to stand on unstable ground, and the design of the organ front and altar was formally settled in 1811.

Inside, the church can seat around 400 people. The blue-grey pews carry wrought-iron candlesticks donated by the Bispberg mining company around 1900, though they were not actually installed until 1956. At the altar stands a temple-like facade with four columns, designed by Olof Tempelman in 1811, alongside a yellow-toned woven hanging by Dagmar Lodén.

Of the original 36 stained-glass panels dating from the church's consecration, 11 survive, now grouped in one north and one south window rather than scattered across all the windows as originally intended. They were a gift from Petter Kruse, whose wife Cecilia is said to have given the church its informal name, Ceciliakyrkan.

The church has had a succession of organs since a small positive organ was donated in 1638, rebuilt and enlarged over the following centuries. The present instrument, with 36 stops, was built by Olof Hammarberg in 1972, retaining the organ case and facade from 1811; it was further adjusted by organ builder Martin Hausner in 2018–2019.

The tower houses a porch, a choir room and a bell loft with four bells. The largest, cast in Säter in 1638, cracked in 1704 and was recast in Falun in 1706, gaining considerably in weight; it bears reliefs of Christ and of Karl XII on horseback, with a verse from the medieval carol In dulci jubilo around its upper rim. The smallest bell, an old auction bell from the nineteenth century, may be linked to a lost fire-warning bell once used by the town.

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Säterbygdens församling

Säters kyrka

Säters kyrka is the parish church of Säterbygdens församling in Västerås diocese, serving the town of Säter in Dalarna. The present building dates from the late 1770s and stands on the site of two earlier churches.

Södra Kyrkogatan 1, 783 30, Säter

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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: 29 Aug 2022. This is not an independent verification date.

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