Klara Church
The Church of Saint Clare or Klara Church is a church in central Stockholm. A church has been at the site since the 1280s; the current buildings date from the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries.Photo: ArildV, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Photo: Guillaume Speurt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Lutheran
- Description: church in central Stockholm, Sweden
- Also known as: “Klara kyrka”, “Saint Clara Church”, and “The Church of Saint Clare”
- Address: Stockholm
- Wheelchair access: limited
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Stockholm Central Station and Sergels torg.
Stockholm Central Station
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Stockholm Central Station, Stockholms centralstation, is Sweden's busiest rail station, in the Norrmalm district of Stockholm. It is directly connected to the Cityterminalen bus station, the Stockholm City commuter train station and the T-Centralen metro station, with a tram stop.
Sergels torg
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Sergels torg is a major public square in Stockholm, Sweden, constructed in the 1960s and named after 18th-century sculptor Johan Tobias Sergel, whose workshop was once located north of the square. Sergels torg is situated 180 metres northeast of Klara Church.
Culture Centre
Photo: Holger.Ellgaard, CC BY-SA 3.0.
House of Culture is a cultural center situated to the south of Sergels torg in central Stockholm, Sweden. The House of Culture has been described as a symbol for Stockholm as well as of the growth of modernism in Sweden. Culture Centre is situated 210 metres northeast of Klara Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Klara and Norrmalm.
Klara
Neighborhood
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Klara is a part of lower Norrmalm in the central part of Stockholm. It has its name from Klara Church. Today the name, though not often used in daily speech, has become synonymous with the old city that once occupied lower Norrmalm.
Norrmalm
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Norrmalm, also known as City, is the central borough of Stockholm, bordering to Östermalm to the east at Birger Jarlsgatan, the Old Town to the south, Kungsholmen to the south-west, and Vasastan north-west of Tegnérgatan.
Gamla stan
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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.
Klara Church
- Categories: building, historic site, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Stockholm, Stockholms domkyrkoförs., Stockholm Municipality, Stockholm County, Svealand, Sweden, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.3312° or 59° 19′ 52″ northLongitude
18.06156° or 18° 3′ 42″ eastOpen location code
9FFW83J6+FJOpenStreetMap ID
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amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap feature
historic=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=lutheranOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=limitedWikidata ID
Q1540683
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In Other Languages
From Afrikaans to Ukrainian—“Klara Church” goes by many names.
- Afrikaans: “Klara-kerk”
- Belarusian: “царква Святой Клары”
- Bhojpuri: “क्लारा चर्च”
- Bulgarian: “Света Клара”
- Catalan: “Església de Klara”
- Chinese: “克拉拉教堂”
- Chinese: “聖克萊爾教堂”
- Danish: “Klara Kirke”
- Danish: “Klara kyrka”
- Danish: “S:ta Clara kyrka”
- Dutch: “Klarakerk”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه كلارا”
- Esperanto: “Kirko de Sankta Klaro”
- Estonian: “Stockholmi Püha Klara kirik”
- Finnish: “Klaaran kirkko”
- Finnish: “Pyhän Klaaran kirkko”
- French: “église Sainte-Claire de Stockholm”
- French: “Église Sainte-Claire de Stockholm”
- German: “Klara kyrka”
- German: “Klarakirche”
- German: “S:ta Clara kyrka”
- Italian: “chiesa di Santa Chiara”
- Italian: “Chiesa di Santa Chiara”
- Italian: “Klara kyrka”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Klara-kirken”
- Norwegian: “Klara-kirken”
- Persian: “کلیسای کلارا”
- Polish: “Klara kyrka”
- Polish: “Kościół św. Klary w Sztokholmie”
- Portuguese: “Igreja de Klara”
- Russian: “церковь Святой Клары”
- Russian: “Церковь Святой Клары”
- Slovenian: “cerkev sv. Klare v Stockholmu”
- Slovenian: “Klara kyrka”
- Spanish: “Iglesia de Santa Clara (Estocolmo)”
- Spanish: “Iglesia de Santa Clara”
- Swedish: “Klara kyrka”
- Swedish: “S:ta Clara kyrka”
- Swedish: “Sankta Clara kyrka”
- Swedish: “Sankta Klara Kyrka”
- Turkish: “Klara Kilisesi”
- Ukrainian: “Церква Святої Клари”
- “क्लारा चर्च”
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