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The fascinating city relocation project in Kiruna, Sweden, reaches a new milestone as the iconic Kiruna Church is moved in ...
Watch live as an entire church in Sweden begins its move to its new home on Tuesday, 19 August. Kiruna Church is being ...
The mammoth move has seen the wooden structure, weighing over 600 tons, transported on specialized trailers traveling at ...
Sweden has just completed a huge and historic task: moving the 113-year-old Kiruna Church to a new location. The 600-ton wooden church was slowly transported over two days, covering five kilometers of ...
The Kiruna Church and its belfry are being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as ...
Thousands of people gathered this week in Sweden's northernmost town, Kiruna, to watch its iconic church be slowly moved on wheels to its new home five kilometres away. The two-day, live-streamed ...
The Swedish city of Kiruna, which is gradually shuffling itself 5km to the east to make way for an expanding iron ore mine, ...
The Kiruna Church – called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish – and its belfry are being moved this week along a three-mile route to a ...
Construction machinery is parked next to the Kiruna Church, a Sami style wooden Swedish Lutheran church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, in Kiruna, Sweden, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025, after the ...
Mining in Kiruna, Sweden, has weakened the ground below a beloved church. It’s being rolled three miles to its new home. By Isabella Kwai and Isabella Anderson The commanding wooden church ...
Construction workers and media stand near the Kiruna Church, a Sami style wooden Swedish Lutheran church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, in Kiruna, Sweden, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, a day before it ...
Kiruna, located 124 miles above the Arctic Circle, is home to the world’s largest underground ore mine. Its landmark church was gifted to the town by Sweden’s state owned mining company, LKAB ...