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Kiruna Church, Sweden

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Sweden’s Kiruna Church Is On The Move After More Than 100 Years

Kiruna’s move is driven by ground subsidence linked to the vast iron ore deposits beneath the city.

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Sweden saves historic Arctic church with massive move away from mine

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Historic Swedish church on the move in logistical feat

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Watch This Church Being Moved Down The Road Before A Mine Swallows Its Town

The Kiruna Church — called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish — is being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east as part of the town’s relocation.

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How do you move a Swedish church down the road? Prayer, engineering and Eurovision

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How do you move a beloved Swedish church three miles up the road? With prayer, engineering and a special trailer

Kiruna Church, Swedish

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Swedish church is being moved down the road

The Kiruna Church is being moved this week along a three-mile route east as part of the town’s relocation.

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This Swedish church is moving 3 miles down the road. It's relocating before a mine swallows the town

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Timelapse video shows Swedish church being slowly moved to new location

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Swedish Church Moving Across Town

A landmark 113-year-old church at risk from ground subsidence is being relocated in its entirety, moving five kilometres along a road in Sweden's far north.

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Swedish church sets off on three-mile road trip to new city centre

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Historic church begins two-day journey across Swedish city

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Record numbers of Swedish viewers tune in to watch landmark church relocated 5km – in one piece

“When it came to the church, we decided it was best to move it in one piece. We saw the value in that,” the LKAB project manager, Stefan Holmblad Johansson, told the AFP news agency.

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Swedish church being moved intact across town

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Swedish church moving five kilometres down the road as new mine threatens town

Why a 113-year-old, wooden church in Sweden was rolled away

Sweden's 113-year-old Kiruna Church is being transported away from a location that is sinking due to underground mining.

A historic Swedish church embraces inclusion with minority languages

But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to incorporate the region's minority languages — Northern Sami, Finnish and Meänkieli – into worship services, carrying on an inclusive ethos that has been a cornerstone of the historic wooden church since its founding in 1912.

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Wooden church sets off on slow Swedish road trip to escape mining subsidence

Sweden's landmark Kiruna Church begins a two-day trip to a new home, inching down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ore mine.

From Unstable Ground, an Old Church Rolls to a New Home

Mining in Kiruna, Sweden, has jeopardized the ground below a beloved church. Thanks to a feat of engineering, it is on the move.

Watch final trip for church on wheels as it moves to new home

A 113-year-old church in the far north of Sweden has arrived at its new home after a two-day journey. Aerial footage shows the church hoisted onto specially designed trailers, as it was moved 5km (3 miles) along a road at a maximum speed of 500m an hour, with road fittings like lamp posts and signs removed to make way.

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An iconic Swedish church begins a two-day journey to a new home

After years of planning and careful preparations, Sweden's landmark Kiruna Church on Tuesday (August 19) began a two-day trip to a new home to save it from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ore mine.

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