Orkesta was a
parish
A parish is a territorial entity in many Christianity, Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest#Christianity, priest, often termed a parish pries ...
with 1103 inhabitants (2003), located in
Vallentuna Municipality
Vallentuna Municipality () is a municipality in Stockholm County in east central Sweden. Its seat is located in the town of Vallentuna.
The current municipality was established as a result of the municipal reform of 1971. Its coat of arms depic ...
,
Stockholm County in
Sweden
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.
The
Orkesta Runestones
The Orkesta Runestones are a set of 11th-century runestones engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark alphabet that are located at the church of Orkesta, northeast of Stockholm in Sweden.
Several of the stones were raised by, or in memor ...
were discovered in a local Church.
The parish is since 2006 a part of
Vallentuna parish
Vallentuna is the seat of Vallentuna Municipality in Stockholm County, Sweden, with 33,219 inhabitants in 2018. Vallentuna's cultural landscape is well preserved, and human habitation in the area has been traced back as far as the Stone Age. Arche ...
.
See also
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Orkesta Runestones
The Orkesta Runestones are a set of 11th-century runestones engraved in Old Norse with the Younger Futhark alphabet that are located at the church of Orkesta, northeast of Stockholm in Sweden.
Several of the stones were raised by, or in memor ...
References
Vallentuna Municipality
Uppland
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