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Originally, there were 265 station points. The World Heritage Site includes 34 points in ten countries (north to south: Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Belarus, Moldova, Ukraine), four of which are in Sweden ( Jupukka hill, one of the Sweden's station points, pictured). [ 22] Decorated Farmhouses of Hälsingland.
Religion in Sweden. Side view of Uppsala Cathedral, the headquarters of the Church of Sweden. Religion in Sweden has, over the years, become increasingly diverse. Christianity was the religion of virtually all of the Swedish population from the 12th to the early 20th century, but it has rapidly declined throughout the late 20th and early 21st ...
This is a list of people connected to Stockholm, Sweden.. Carl Michael Bellman, 1779 Charles IX of Sweden Queen Christina, 17th C. Britt Ekland, 1972 Greta Garbo, 1931 Elsa Hosk, 1987 in Stockholm Johan Harmenberg, 1980 Magdalena Eriksson, 2016 Jenny Lind, 1850 Carl Lindhagen, ca.1900 Alfred Nobel, pre 1896 Anne Sofie von Otter, 2011 Olof Palme, 1984 August Strindberg, ca.1900 Greta Thunberg, 2020
The Church of Sweden ( Swedish: Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. [ 7] A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.4 million members at year end 2023, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sweden, the largest Lutheran denomination in Europe and the third-largest in the world, after ...
Skogskyrkogården came about following an international competition in 1915 for the design of a new cemetery in Enskede in the southern part of Stockholm, Sweden. The entry called "Tallum" by the young architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz was selected.
The people sacrificed cattle and perhaps humans, to win the Æsir's blessing on the germinating crop. The ás (singular of Æsir) who was especially hailed at this time was Odin, who commonly went by the name of "Jólner". [3] The Jul was Christianized, while the blót rites were forbidden and abandoned when Sweden became a Christian country.
Stockholm. / 59.32944°N 18.06861°E / 59.32944; 18.06861. Stockholm ( Swedish: [ˈstɔ̂kː (h)ɔlm] ⓘ) [ 10] is the capital and most populous city of the Kingdom of Sweden as well as the largest urban area in the Nordic countries. Approximately 1 million people live in the municipality, [ 11] with 1.6 million in the urban area, and ...
Bridget of Sweden (1303–1373), Patron Saint of Europe.. This list of Swedish saints includes all Christian saints with connections to Sweden, either because they were of Swedish origin and ethnicity or because they travelled to the Swedish people from their own homeland and became noted in their hagiography for their work.