08/20/2025
For those of you who have ancestors in Sweden, and those of you who love marvels of engineering, watch these videos. This is an amazing feat of planning and engineering! The language spoken is Swedish, but you don't need to speak the language to understand what is going on.
A historic wooden church in northern Sweden is being moved across the town of Kiruna to make way for the expansion of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine. The two-day operation is relocating the church about 3 miles to Kiruna’s new town center, part of a decades long plan to shift the entire community. Mining beneath Kiruna by the state-owned company LKAB since 1910 has destabilized the ground, causing subsidence.
Built in 1912, the red-painted Lutheran church is one of Sweden’s best-known landmarks, blending neo-Gothic architecture with Indigenous Sami motifs. The $52M relocation is funded by LKAB. Engineers lifted the 130-foot-wide, 115-foot-tall structure from its foundation and placed it on a hydraulic transporter for the journey. There are 3 videos. Watch the move here
I direktsändning följer vi den världsunika flytten av Kiruna kyrka, från gamla stadskärnan till dess nya plats, fem kilometer bort. Den stora kyrkflytten tar två dagar och är en del av den omfattande stadsomvandlingen. Den ikoniska kyrkan är 40 meter bred, 35 meter hög och väger 672 ton. A...
