The Kiruna Church — called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish — is being moved this week along a 3-mile route east as part of the town’s relocation. It’s happening because the world’s largest underground iron-ore mine is threatening to swallow the town.

An historic church in Sweden is being moved three miles in a two day operation. The big wooden church in the city of Kiruna was built between 1909 and 1912. With the old city centre at risk from the expansion of an underground mine,

With great fanfare, a historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden's most beautiful buildings began its slow move from its home in the Arctic town of Kiruna on Tuesday to allow the expansion of Europe's biggest underground mine.