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Sweden’s Kiruna Church Is On Move

Sweden’s Kiruna Church Is On The Move After More Than 100 Years

The move of the 130-foot-wide, 115-foot-tall structure represents the most striking chapter yet in a decades-long relocation project that has already shifted hundreds of homes, businesses, and public...

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Watch live: Sweden’s historic 600-tonne Kiruna Church begins move to new home

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Sweden moves the historic Kiruna Church before an iron-ore mine swallows it

Kiruna Church, Swedish city

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Swedish church is being moved down the road

The Kiruna Church is being moved this week along a three-mile route east as part of the town’s relocation.

· 11h · on MSN

This Swedish church is moving 3 miles down the road. It’s relocating before a mine swallows the town

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Entire church begins two-day journey across Swedish city

BreakingNews.ie · 17h

Swedish church sets off on three-mile road trip to new city centre

The Kiruna Church — called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish — and its belfry are being moved this week along a five-kilometre (three-mile) route east to a new city centre as part of the town’s relocation.

RTE Online · 16h

Historic Swedish church begins slow move to new location

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Sweden moves landmark Kiruna Church to new site

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How do you move a beloved Swedish church down the road? With prayer, engineering and some Eurovision

In 2001, the Swedish people voted the wooden church the “best building of all time, built before 1950” in a poll connected to the Ministry of Culture.

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Historic Swedish church transported on trailers to avoid being swallowed by mine

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This Swedish church is moving 3 miles down the road

Radio France Internationale10m

Historic Swedish church on the move in logistical feat

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

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Wooden church sets off on slow Swedish road trip to escape mining subsidence

Sweden's landmark Kiruna Church will begin a two-day trip to a new home on Tuesday, inching down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ore mine.

From Unstable Ground, an Old Church Rolls to a New Home

Mining in Kiruna, Sweden, has jeopardized the ground below a beloved church. Thanks to a feat of engineering, it is on the move.

Daily Jang15h

King Carl Gustaf attends historic event, Royal Family releases statement

Royal Family has released a statement about King Carl Gustaf’s new outing after resuming royal duties.The Swedish monarch will visit Kiruna on Wednesday, August 20, to attend the historic move of the city's church.