Carl Johan Church

Carl Johan Church is a Church of Sweden parish church on Sagberget, in Gothenburg. The church, designed by Fredrik Blom, is named after King Charles XIV John, who a few years before the opening ceremony in 1826 was on a visit to the nearby porter brewery at Klippan.

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Type: Church
Denomination: Lutheran
Description: church building in Gothenburg, Sweden
Also known as: “Carl Johans kyrka”
Address: Carl Johans Kyrkoplan 3, Göteborg

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Göteborgs Carl Johans parish and Maritime Museum & Aquarium.

Göteborgs Carl Johans parish

Community center

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Göteborgs Carl Johans parish is a community center.

Maritime Museum & Aquarium

Museum

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Maritime Museum & Aquarium is situated 620 metres northeast of Carl Johan Church.

Gothenburg English Studio Theatre

Theater building

The Gothenburg English Studio Theatre is a professional English-language theatre company in Gothenburg, Sweden. Gothenburg English Studio Theatre is situated 390 metres southwest of Carl Johan Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Eriksberg and Stigberget.

Eriksberg

Suburb

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Eriksberg is an area on Hisingen in Gothenburg where Eriksbergs Mekaniska Verkstads AB had their shipyard until bankruptcy in 1979. For over a century the area was dominated by shipbuilding but a crisis in the 1970s destroyed the industry.