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Uppsala Cathedral (Swedish: Uppsala domkyrka ⓘ) is a cathedral located between the University Hall of Uppsala University and the Fyris river in the centre of Uppsala, Sweden. A church of the Church of Sweden , the national church , in the Lutheran tradition, Uppsala Cathedral is the seat of the Archbishop of Uppsala , the primate of Sweden.
Today the church is located in the outskirts of Uppsala city, but at the time of its construction – before the establishment of the Diocese of Uppsala [2] - the church was the centre of one of the hundreds of Uppland, close to the location of a thing and by a locally important road. [3] A guild operated in the locality throughout the Middle ...
Gamla Uppsala, the centre of worship in Sweden until the temple was destroyed in the late 11th century. Rudolf Simek says that, regarding Adam of Bremen's account of the temple, "Adam's sources for this information are of extremely varying reliability, but the existence of a temple at Uppsala is undisputed." The question is if this temple was ...
The three large "royal mounds" at Gamla Uppsala. The Royal Mounds (Swedish: Kungshögarna) is the name of the three large barrows located in Gamla Uppsala. According to folklore, the three gods Thor, Odin and Freyr would be at rest in Kungshögarna or Uppsala högar (from the Old Norse word Haugr meaning mound or barrow; cognate English Howe). [18]
The main models for the new church were Uppsala Cathedral and the Holy Trinity Church, also in Uppsala. The church porch was added before the middle of the 15th century. It received internal brick vaulting circa 1430-60. In the 1730s, the church windows were enlarged and the church whitewashed internally. Additional changes were made in 1796-97 ...
Gamla Uppsala was a major religious and cultural centre in Sweden during these eras as well as medieval Sweden between approximately the 5th and the 13th centuries, housing the famous pagan Temple at Uppsala and several large burial mounds. The museum building was designed by architect Carl Nyrén (1917– 2011).
Västeråker Church (Swedish: Västeråkers kyrka) is a Lutheran church in the Archdiocese of Uppsala in Uppsala County, Sweden. History and architecture [ edit ]
Alsike Church stands by a formerly important sea-route linking Uppsala, Sigtuna and Stockholm, in an area characterised by its old cultural landscape. [1] Although the oldest parts of the presently visible church date from the 13th century, it was probably pre-dated by an earlier wooden church . [ 2 ]