Royal Chapel
The Royal Chapel is a church inside Stockholm Palace. It was opened in 1754. It is the church of the non-territorial parish of the Royal Court, which consist of the Swedish royal family, present and former permanent employees at the Royal Court, and spouse and children of permanent employees.Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Opening hours: 10:00 AM—5:00 PM
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Lutheran
- Description: church in the Royal Palace, Stockholm, Sweden
- Also known as: “Slottskyrkan” and “The Royal Chapel”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Livrustkammaren and Nobel Prize Museum.
Livrustkammaren
Museum
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Royal Armoury is a museum in the Royal Palace in Stockholm, Sweden. It contains many artifacts of Swedish military history and Swedish royalty. It is the oldest museum in Sweden, established in 1628 by King Gustavus Adolphus when he decided that his clothes from his campaign in Poland should be preserved for posterity.
Nobel Prize Museum
Museum
Storkyrkan
Church
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Storkyrkan, also called Stockholms domkyrka and Sankt Nikolai kyrka, is the oldest church in Stockholm. Storkyrkan lies in the centre of Stockholm in Gamla stan, between Stockholm Palace and Stortorget, the old main square of Stockholm. Storkyrkan is situated 140 metres southwest of Royal Chapel.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stockholm and Gamla stan.
Stockholm
Photo: Thanh-Tung Nguyen, CC BY 2.0.
Stockholm is Sweden's capital and largest city, with nearly a million inhabitants in the city, and 2.4 million within Stockholm County. The inner city is made up of 14 islands across Lake Mälaren and three streams into the brackish Baltic Sea, with the Stockholm archipelago with some 24,000 islands, islets and skerries.
Gamla stan
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Gamla stan pronounced gamlaˈstɑːn, the Old Town, also known as Staden mellan broarna is the Old Town in Stockholm, containing genuine cultural heritage, as well as tourist traps.
Blasieholmen
Locality
Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Blasieholmen is a peninsula in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is located east of Kungsträdgården. Originally a small island, named Käpplingen, it became a peninsula, connected to Norrmalm, during the 17th century.
Royal Chapel
- Categories: place of worship and religion
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms domkyrkoförs., Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
59.32648° or 59° 19′ 35″ northLongitude
18.07238° or 18° 4′ 21″ eastElevation
12 metres (39 feet)Inception
December 8th, 1754Operator
H.M. Konungens HovmarskalksämbeteOpen location code
9FFW83GC+HXOpenStreetMap ID
node 1243683380OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=lutheranGeoNames ID
12382143Wikidata ID
Q10671642
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In Other Languages
From Catalan to Swedish—“Royal Chapel” goes by many names.
- Catalan: “Capella Reial”
- Czech: “Královská kaple”
- Czech: “Slottskyrkan”
- Danish: “Slotskirken i Stockholms Slot”
- Danish: “Slottskyrkan”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه رويال تشابل”
- French: “chapelle royale”
- French: “Chapelle royale”
- German: “Schlosskirche”
- Italian: “cappella Reale”
- Italian: “Cappella Reale”
- Japanese: “王宮礼拝堂”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Slottskyrkan”
- Norwegian: “Slottskyrkan”
- Slovenian: “kraljeva kapela”
- Swedish: “Slottskyrkan”
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