Ödenäs Church () is a church in Ödenäs,

Alingsås Alingsås () is a urban areas of Sweden, locality and the seat of Alingsås Municipality in Västra Götaland County, Sweden. It had 24,482 inhabitants in 2010. Geography Geographically the city is situated by the outlet of the small rivulet Säv ...

Västergötland Västergötland (), also known as West Gothland or the Latinized version Westrogothia in older literature, is one of the 25 traditional non-administrative provinces of Sweden (''landskap'' in Swedish), situated in the southwest of Sweden. Vä ...

, Sweden. It belongs to the parish of Ödenäs, in the

Diocese of Skara The Diocese of Skara () is the oldest existing diocese in Sweden. It was originally a Latin bishopric of the Roman Catholic church, but since the Protestant Reformation has been a Lutheran diocese within the Church of Sweden, with its seat in S ...

. Two former wooden churches preceded the current stone church, and one from the Middle Ages and also one from about 1700. The current church building was built in 1840 and designed by

Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander (June 23, 1816 – May 9, 1881) was a Swedish architect and artist. Biography Fredrik Wilhelm Scholander was born in Stockholm, Sweden. He was the son of Georg Fredrik Scholander (1785–1825) and Karin Nyström (178 ...

. In the nave's west side is a tower with a lantern. The organ was added in 1921 by Olof Hammarberg.

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Churches in Västra Götaland County Churches completed in 1840 Churches in the Diocese of Skara 19th-century Church of Sweden church buildings Alingsås Municipality 19th-century establishments in Älvsborg County 1840 establishments in Sweden {{Sweden-Lutheran-church-stub