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 year 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 Gothenburg English Studio Theatre.

Göteborgs Carl Johans parish

Community center

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Göteborgs Carl Johans parish is a community center.

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.

Maritime Museum & Aquarium

Museum

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Maritime Museum & Aquarium is situated 620 metres northeast 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.