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The current Trinity church in Uppsala was founded in the late 13th century and cannot be the church where Erik was slain. Scholars have discussed different locations of the older Trinity church, but the presence of pre-cathedral graves in the vicinity of the cathedral might suggest that the original Trinity church was located at the same spot ...
The Finsta Chapel or St Eric's Chapel on the north-west corner of the chancel houses the relics of Eric the Holy, the patron saint of Sweden, who was killed in 1160 on the site where Uppsala Cathedral was later built. His shrine was moved from the first cathedral in Gamla Uppsala as soon as work began on the new building.
Queen Christina was generous to the university, gave scholarships to Swedish students to study abroad and recruited foreign scholars to Uppsala chairs, among them several from the University of Strasbourg, notably, the philologist Johannes Schefferus (professor Skytteanus), whose little library and museum building at St Eriks torg now belongs ...
View towards Uppsala Cathedral across the river.. Fjärdingen is a neighbourhood in the inner city of Uppsala, Sweden, situated on the western banks of the river Fyris.It has been the ecclesiastical centre of Sweden since the 13th century and contains many of the historical sights and landmarks of Uppsala, notably Uppsala Cathedral on the Domberget hill, with the Archbishop's residence and ...
previously S:t Eriks torg 2 3 21300000013673: Kemicum, Fysicum, Philologicum, Prefektbostaden ... (Uppsala central) Dragarbrunn 32:1 1 21300000013384: Vaksalaskolan ...
This image was first published in the 1st (1876–1899), 2nd (1904–1926) or 3rd (1923–1937) edition of Nordisk familjebok.The copyrights for that book have expired and this image is in the public domain, because images had no named authors and the book was published more than 70 years ago.
St. Eric's Cathedral, Stockholm This page was last edited on 8 November 2016, at 08:58 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 ...
Samfundet S:t Erik (Swedish for "The St. Erik Association") is a Swedish non-profit organisation with the stated mission to promote knowledge of the history of Stockholm and support the preservation and development of the city's culture and aesthetics.