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The fascinating city relocation project in Kiruna, Sweden, reaches a new milestone as the iconic Kiruna Church is moved in ...
Sweden has just completed a huge and historic task: moving the 113-year-old Kiruna Church to a new location. The 600-ton wooden church was slowly transported over two days, covering five kilometers of ...
Construction signs are placed outside the Kiruna Church, a Sami style wooden Swedish Lutheran church, called Kiruna Kyrka in ...
But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (120 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to incorporate the region's minority ...
The Swedish city of Kiruna, which is gradually shuffling itself 5km to the east to make way for an expanding iron ore mine, ...
Watch live as an entire church in Sweden begins its move to its new home on Tuesday, 19 August. Kiruna Church is being ...
The mammoth move has seen the wooden structure, weighing over 600 tons, transported on specialized trailers traveling at ...
The two-day spectacle saw the red-painted Kiruna Church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, inch its way to a new home. Kiruna ...
Entire Swedish Town, Including Historic Kiruna Church, Gets Uprooted and Moved to New Place for this Reason The expansion of ...
KIRUNA, Sweden • How do you move one of Sweden’s most beloved wooden churches down the road? With a little engineering, a lot of prayer — and some Eurovision for ...
The Kiruna Church and its belfry are being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as ...
Sweden's 113-year-old Kiruna Church is being transported away from a location that is sinking due to underground mining.