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Västerfjälls Kapell

Address
Kyrkvägen 6, 938 31, ARJEPLOG
Municipality
Arjeplogs Kommun
Denomination
Church of Sweden
Associated diocese
Diocese of Luleå

Västerfjälls Kapell is a small timber chapel in Arjeplog parish, Norrbotten, built to designs by architect Bo Grefberg and consecrated in the summer of 1957 by Bishop Ivar Hylander. It stands two kilometres west of Västerfjället, within the Diocese of Luleå.



The chapel has a timber frame with façades clad in white-painted horizontal timber panelling. Its hipped saddle roof was originally covered with tarred wood shingles, though it is now finished in sheet metal, a practical change from the original design. Inside, the walls and ceiling are lined with untreated timber panelling, and the floor is covered with boards, giving the interior a simple, unadorned character typical of mid-twentieth-century Swedish chapel architecture.

A free-standing bell tower, also designed by Grefberg, stands to the west of the chapel. One of its bells was a gift from King Gustaf VI Adolf, a detail that connects this modest rural chapel to the wider Swedish church and royal tradition of the period.

The chapel's remote setting, well outside the main village, reflects the dispersed pattern of settlement in this part of Norrbotten, where small chapels of ease were built to serve scattered communities too far from the parish church for regular worship.

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Västerfjälls Kapell

Västerfjälls Kapell is a small timber chapel in Arjeplog parish, Norrbotten, built to designs by architect Bo Grefberg and consecrated in the summer of 1957 by Bishop Ivar Hylander. It stands two kilometres west of Västerfjället, within the Diocese of Luleå.

Kyrkvägen 6, 938 31, ARJEPLOG

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