Finja is a

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situated in

Hässleholm Municipality Hässleholm Municipality () is a Municipalities of Sweden, municipality in Scania County in southern Sweden. Its seat is located in the city Hässleholm. The present municipality was created in 1974 when the former ''City of Hässleholm,'' itsel ...

Scania County Scania ( ), also known by its native name of Skåne (), is the southernmost of the historical provinces () of Sweden. Located in the south tip of the geographical region of Götaland, the province is roughly conterminous with Skåne County, cr ...

Sweden Sweden, formally the Kingdom of Sweden, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. It borders Norway to the west and north, and Finland to the east. At , Sweden is the largest Nordic count ...

. Finja is located north of Lake Finjasjön, between

Hässleholm Hässleholm is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Hässleholm Municipality, Scania County, Sweden with 18,500 inhabitants in 2011. Overview Hässleholm was gradually developed from 1860 in connection with the construction of the m ...

and Tyringe. The village had a population of 535 inhabitants in 2010. Finja kyrka-2

Finja Church

Finja Church is in the parish of Tyringe in the

Diocese of Lund The Diocese of Lund () is a diocese within the Church of Sweden which corresponds to the provinces of Blekinge and Skåne. There are 217 parishes within the diocese, the most significant number in any of the dioceses of the Church of Sweden. Th ...

. The church was constructed in the middle of the 12th century in a Romanesque style. Inside the church there are murals from the 1140s.

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Populated places in Hässleholm Municipality {{Skåne-geo-stub