Watch live as an entire church in Sweden begins its move to its new home on Tuesday, 19 August. Kiruna Church is being relocated to save it from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ore mine.

Sweden's 113-year-old Kiruna Church is being transported away from a location that is sinking due to underground mining.

The mammoth move has seen the wooden structure, weighing over 600 tons, transported on specialized trailers traveling at about 1,600 feet per hour.

How do you move one of Sweden’s most beloved wooden churches down the road? The Kiruna Church — called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish — is being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east as part of the town’s relocation.

Mining in Kiruna, Sweden, has jeopardized the ground below a beloved church. Thanks to a feat of engineering, it is on the move.

Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf walks next to the Kiruna Church, a Sami style wooden Swedish Lutheran church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, in Kiruna, Sweden, Wednesday, Aug. 20, 2025,

The Kiruna Church and its belfry are being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as part of the town’s relocation.

Sweden is moving its 113-year-old Kiruna Church on wheels to escape a giant iron ore mine. A €45m feat of engineering, heritage and survival.

Sweden’s Kiruna Church, a century-old landmark, will begin its two-day journey to a new site today. The move is part of a three-decade plan to relocate thousands of residents and buildings from the mining town of Kiruna in Lapland.

What has wheels and crawls along at half a kilometer an hour? A church in Sweden, of course! A convoy of remote-controlled flatbed trailers is transporting a 113-year-old church to the new city center of Kiruna.

A historic church in Kiruna, Sweden, is making a 3-mile journey to a new part of the city to escape the encroaching threat o