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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 ...
Enköpings-Näs Church, view from the east. To the left is the burial chapel of the Gyllenanckar family. Enköpings-Näs Church (Swedish: Enköpings-Näs kyrka) is a medieval church approximately 10 kilometres (6.2 miles) south of Enköping in Uppsala County, Sweden.
Tensta Church (Swedish: Tensta kyrka) is a medieval Lutheran church in the Archdiocese of Uppsala in Uppsala County, Sweden. It is a representative example of the Brick Gothic style in Sweden. History and architecture
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.
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Skånela kyrka) is a medieval Lutheran church in the Archdiocese of Uppsala in Stockholm County, Sweden. It is one of the ...
It was a symbolic moment when Pope John Paul II visited Scandinavia in 1989 and held an open-air mass at the royal mounds in Gamla Uppsala, as this was a Norse religion cultic centre, which became Sweden's first archbishopric in 1164. [16] In 2000, [citation needed] the Swedish AsatruSociety restarted the tradition of holding blóts at Gamla ...
Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Tuna kyrka) is a medieval church located north-east of Uppsala in Uppsala County, 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 ...