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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 ...
Skederid Church (Swedish: Skederids kyrka) is a medieval church, which belongs to the Lutheran Archdiocese of Uppsala. It lies just outside Norrtälje in Stockholm County, Sweden. It was built by Birger Persson, father of Saint Bridget of Sweden , and it is probably the church where she was baptised .
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
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 ...
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.
Gryta Church (Swedish: Gryta kyrka) is a medieval Lutheran church located in a shallow valley about 2 km (1.2 mi) northeast of Örsundsbro, in the Archdiocese of Uppsala in Uppsala County, Sweden. A few hundred meters west of the church is Salnecke Castle, one of Sweden's best-preserved castles from the mid-17th century.
Due to isostasy the shoreline had moved down from Gamla Uppsala, and in the 6th century the Fyris River was not navigable by sail north of Kvarnfallet in the current city of Uppsala. At this site the modern city of Uppsala was founded as a port city to Gamla Uppsala, under the name of Aros. In the first centuries of the second millennium the ...
Uppsala (/ ʌ p ˈ s ɑː l ə / up-SAH-lə, Swedish pronunciation: [ˈɵ̂pːˌsɑːla] ⓘ; archaically spelled Upsala) is the capital of Uppsala County and the fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö.