Jokkmokk Church (also known as ''Jokkmokk New Church'') is a church in

Jokkmokk Jokkmokk () is a Urban areas in Sweden, locality and the seat of Jokkmokk Municipality in Norrbotten County, provinces of Sweden, province of Lapland, Sweden, Lapland, Sweden, with 2,786 inhabitants in 2010. The Lule Sámi name of the place (compos ...

in the

Jokkmokk Municipality Jokkmokk Municipality (, , , ) is a municipality in Norrbotten County in northern Sweden. Its seat is located in Jokkmokk. The name ''Jokkmokk'' is Sami for the words "river" and "bend", since the town is situated close to a bend in the nearby r ...

. It is the parish church.

Architecture and history

The church is a

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church and is built of wood. Construction began in 1888 and was completed and opened for service in 1889. A vestry was added in 1961. The church was designed by E.A. Jacobsson and has a squashed flat shape that includes a side tower.

Details

The

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, an oil painting, depicts

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' last supper and was painted by Torsten Nordberg in 1949. The

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is carved from raw birch. The font, along with the base of the organ, was renovated with the church's restoration in 1949 by Runo Johansson Lette.Maria Vedin (redaktör): ''Jokkmokk - natur och kultur genom tiderna'', Jokkmokk 1999

Sources

Länsstyrelsen i Norrbottens län om Jokkmokks nya kyrka

Notes

External links

Om Jokkmokks kyrka på Jokkmokks församlings webbplats
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