Skara Cathedral
Skara Cathedral is a church in the town of Skara, Sweden. The cathedral is the seat for the bishop of the Diocese of Skara of the Church of Sweden.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Denomination: Lutheran
- Description: dates back to the 1000‘s, but the current gothic style originates from the 1300s, and high free vaults, and large windows are typical of the gothic church building style, is signs that are characterizing the Skara cathedral
- Also known as: “Skara domkyrka” and “Skara Domkyrka”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include S:t Nicolai kyrkoruin, Skara and Västergötland museum.
S:t Nicolai kyrkoruin, Skara
Photo: D.O.G.A., CC BY-SA 3.0.
S:t Nicolai kyrkoruin, Skara is situated 120 metres west of Skara Cathedral.
Västergötland museum
Museum
Photo: Nasko, Public domain.
Västergötland museum is situated 400 metres north of Skara Cathedral.
Skara gravkapell
Church
Photo: Nasko, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skara gravkapell is a church, which is situated 420 metres southeast of Skara Cathedral.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Skara and Ardala.
Skara
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Skara is a locality and the seat of Skara Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 18,580 inhabitants in 2013. Despite its small size, it is one of the oldest cities in Sweden, and has a long educational and ecclesiastical history.
Ardala
Village
Ardala is a locality situated in Skara Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 725 inhabitants in 2010. It was founded in 1890 and used to have a grocery store and a library, but is now only a residential area with mostly villas and one-family-houses. Ardala is situated 6 km southwest of Skara Cathedral.
Axvall
Village
Photo: Västgöten, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Axvall is a locality situated in Skara Municipality, Västra Götaland County, Sweden with 1,186 inhabitants in 2010. Axvall is situated 8 km east of Skara Cathedral.
Skara Cathedral
Latitude
58.3865° or 58° 23′ 11″ northLongitude
13.43927° or 13° 26′ 21″ eastElevation
120 metres (394 feet)Inception
1125Operator
Svenska kyrkanOpen location code
9FCM9CPQ+HPOpenStreetMap ID
way 23949687OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=cathedralOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=lutheran
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Ukrainian—“Skara Cathedral” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Skarako katedrala”
- Belarusian: “Кафедральны сабор Скары”
- Catalan: “catedral de Skara”
- Catalan: “Catedral de Skara”
- Chinese: “斯卡拉主教座堂”
- Danish: “Skara Domkirke”
- Danish: “Skara domkyrka”
- Dutch: “Dom van Skara”
- Dutch: “Kathedraal van Skara”
- Dutch: “Skara domkyrka”
- Esperanto: “Katedralo de Skara”
- Finnish: “Skara domkyrka”
- Finnish: “Skaran tuomiokirkko”
- French: “cathédrale de Skara”
- French: “Cathédrale de Skara”
- German: “Dom zu Skara”
- German: “Skara domkyrka”
- Italian: “cattedrale di Skara”
- Italian: “Cattedrale di Skara”
- Japanese: “スカーラ大聖堂”
- Kadazan Dusun: “Katedral Skara”
- Polish: “Katedra w Skarze”
- Portuguese: “Catedral de Skara”
- Russian: “Skara domkyrka”
- Russian: “Кафедральный собор Скары”
- Slovenian: “katedrala v Skari”
- Slovenian: “skarska katedrala”
- Slovenian: “skarska stolnica”
- Slovenian: “stolnica v Skari”
- Spanish: “Catedral de Skara”
- Swedish: “Skara domkyrka”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Skara domkyrka”
- Ukrainian: “Кафедральний собор Скари”
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