Storkyrkan

Storkyrkan, also called Stockholms domkyrka and Sankt Nikolai kyrka, is the oldest church in . Storkyrkan lies in the centre of Stockholm in Gamla stan, between and , the old main square of Stockholm.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Lutheran
  • Description: Lutheran cathedral in Stockholm
  • Also known as: “Great Church”, “Sankt Nicolai kyrka”, “Stockholm Cathedral”, and “Stockholms domkyrka”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Stockholm Central Station and Nobel Prize Museum.

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, Stockholms centralstation, is 's busiest rail station, in the Norrmalm district of . It is directly connected to the Cityterminalen bus station, the Stockholm City commuter train station and the T-Centralen metro station, with a tram stop.

Museum
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The is located in the former Stock Exchange Building on the north side of the square in , the old town in central , .

Castle
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Axel Oxenstierna palace is a Mannerist architecture–style building situated in the Old Town of Stockholm, Sweden.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Stockholm and Gamla stan.

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is 's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within . The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.

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pronounced gamlaˈstɑːn, the Old Town, also known as Staden mellan broarna is the Old Town in , containing genuine cultural heritage, as well as tourist traps.

Locality
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is a peninsula in central , Sweden. It is located east of . Originally a small island, named Käpplingen, it became a peninsula, connected to , during the 17th century.

Storkyrkan

Latitude
59.32577° or 59° 19′ 33″ north
Longitude
18.07041° or 18° 4′ 14″ east
Elevation
29 metres (95 feet)
Inception
1200
Height
63 metres (207 feet)
Open location code
9FFW83GC+85
Open­Street­Map ID
way 8049504
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­lutheran
Geo­Names ID
6944478
Wiki­data ID
Q1133075
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In Other Languages

From Albanian to Ukrainian—“Storkyrkan” goes by many names.
  • Albanian: “Kisha e madhe”
  • Albanian: “Kisha e Shën Nikollës”
  • Arabic: “كاتدرائية ستوكهولم”
  • Basque: “San Nikolas katedrala”
  • Belarusian: “Стурчуркан”
  • Belarusian: “Царква Святога Мікалая”
  • Belarusian: “Царква Сьвятога Мікалая”
  • Bengali: “স্টকহোম ক্যাথেড্রাল”
  • Bengali: “স্তুরশির্কান”
  • Catalan: “Catedral d’Estocolm”
  • Catalan: “Catedral de Sant Nicolau d’Estocolm”
  • Catalan: “Catedral de Sant Nicolau dEstocolm”
  • Chinese: “斯德哥尔摩主教座堂”
  • Chinese: “斯德哥尔摩大教堂”
  • Chinese: “斯德哥爾摩大教堂”
  • Czech: “Katedrála svatého Mikuláše”
  • Danish: “Stockholms Domkirke”
  • Danish: “Storkyrkan”
  • Dutch: “Storkyrkan”
  • Esperanto: “Katedralo Sankta Nikolao de Stokholmo”
  • Estonian: “Püha Nikolai kirik”
  • Estonian: “Stockholmi katedraal”
  • Estonian: “Stockholmi Püha Nikolai kirik”
  • Finnish: “Storkyrkan”
  • Finnish: “Suurkirkko”
  • French: “Cathédrale Saint-Nicolas de Stockholm”
  • French: “Storkyrkan”
  • German: “Große Kirche”
  • German: “Nikolaikirche”
  • German: “Sankt Nikolai kyrka”
  • German: “Storkyrkan”
  • Hebrew: “כנסיית סטורקירקן”
  • Hebrew: “סטורקירקן”
  • Hebrew: “קתדרלת סטורקירקן”
  • Hungarian: “Nagytemplom”
  • Hungarian: “Stockholmi katedrális”
  • Hungarian: “Storkyrkan”
  • Hungarian: “Szent Miklós-templom”
  • Italian: “Storkyrkan”
  • Japanese: “ストールキルカン”
  • Japanese: “ストックホルム大聖堂”
  • Korean: “스톡홀름 대성당”
  • Latin: “Ecclesia Cathedralis Holmiensis”
  • Latin: “Ecclesia Magna”
  • Lithuanian: “Stokholmo katedra”
  • Malay: “Storkyrkan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Storkyrkan”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Storkyrkan”
  • Norwegian: “Storkyrkan”
  • Persian: “استورشیرکان”
  • Polish: “Kościół św. Mikołaja w Sztokholmie”
  • Polish: “Storkyrkan”
  • Portuguese: “Catedral de Estocolmo”
  • Portuguese: “Catedral de São Nicolau de Estocolmo”
  • Portuguese: “Catedral de São Nicolau”
  • Portuguese: “Storkyrkan”
  • Russian: “Кафедральный собор Стокгольма”
  • Russian: “Стокгольмский собор”
  • Russian: “Сторчюрка”
  • Russian: “Церковь Святого Николая”
  • Serbian: “Стокхолмска катедрала”
  • Slovenian: “Sankt Nikolai kyrka”
  • Slovenian: “Storkyrkan”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de Estocolmo”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de San Nicolas de Estocolmo”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de San Nicolás de Estocolmo”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de San Nicolás”
  • Spanish: “Storkyrkan”
  • Swedish: “Stockholms storkyrka”
  • Swedish: “Storkyrkan i Stockholm”
  • Swedish: “Storkyrkan”
  • Thai: “สตูร์ชีร์กาน”
  • Tornedalen Finnish: “Storkyrkan”
  • Turkish: “Aziz Nikolaos Kilisesi”
  • Ukrainian: “Церква святого Миколая”
  • Ukrainian: “Церква Святого Миколая”

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