Vaxholm Church
Vaxholm Church is a church in central Vaxholm, Sweden. The chapel is a single-nave building built in the Neoclassical style. It was completed in 1803 according to drawings by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz and Olof Tempelman.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Church
- Denomination: Protestant
- Description: Church of Sweden church building in Vaxholm, Sweden
- Also known as: “Vaxholms kyrka”
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Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Vaxholm Fortress Museum and Vaxholms Hotell.
Vaxholm Fortress Museum
Museum
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Vaxholm Fortress Museum is situated 630 metres east of Vaxholm Church.
Vaxholms Hotell
Hotel
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Vaxholms Hotell is situated 440 metres east of Vaxholm Church.
Villa Akleja
Building
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Villa Akleja is a building, which is situated 350 metres southwest of Vaxholm Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vaxholm and Svinninge.
Vaxholm
Town
Photo: Szilas, Public domain.
The Stockholm archipelago, Stockholms skärgård or skärgården, is a group of thousands of islands in the Svealand region, extending east of Stockholm in the Baltic Sea.
Svinninge
Village
Photo: Bengt Nyman, CC BY 3.0.
Svinninge is a locality situated in Österåker Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden with 1,636 inhabitants in 2010. Svinninge is situated 6 km northwest of Vaxholm Church.
Österskär
Village
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Österskär is the eastern part of Åkersberga, Österåker Municipality in Sweden. It hosts the terminal station of the Stockholm suburban railway Roslagsbanan. Österskär is situated 6 km north of Vaxholm Church.
Vaxholm Church
- Categories: architectural ensemble, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Vaxholm socken, Vaxholm, Vaxholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.4034° or 59° 24′ 12″ northLongitude
18.34747° or 18° 20′ 51″ eastElevation
15 metres (49 feet)Open location code
9FFWC83W+9XOpenStreetMap ID
way 23889157OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=protestant
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Tornedalen Finnish—“Vaxholm Church” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Vaxholm Kirke”
- Dutch: “Kerk van Vaxholm”
- Dutch: “Vaxholms kyrka”
- Finnish: “Vaxholman kirkko”
- Finnish: “Vaxholmin kirkko”
- Finnish: “Vaxholms kyrka”
- German: “Kirche von Vaxholm”
- German: “Vaxholms kyrka”
- Swedish: “Gustav Adolfskyrkan”
- Swedish: “Vaxholms kyrka”
- Swedish: “Waxholms kyrka”
- Tornedalen Finnish: “Vaxholms kyrka”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Vaxholm Church”. Photo: Torbjörn L, CC BY-SA 3.0.