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A historic Swedish church embraces inclusion with minority languages

But this Lutheran church some 200 kilometers (124 miles) above the Arctic Circle seeks to incorporate the region's minority ...

Huge church picked up and moved 3 MILES away to stop it being swallowed whole

A wooden church was moved, intact, to a new site to prevent it from being swallowed by a huge underground mine.

Why a 113-year-old, wooden church in Sweden was rolled away

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

A Swedish church is moving 3 miles down the road, relocating before a mine swallows the town

Engineers widened a major road from 30 to 79 feet and dismantled a viaduct before the church, which weighs 741 tons, was ...
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Sweden saves historic Arctic church with massive move away from mine

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

Wooden church sets off on slow Swedish road trip to escape mining subsidence

Sweden's landmark Kiruna Church begins a two-day trip to a new home, inching down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls ...

Landmark 113-year-old Swedish church arrives at new home after two day-journey

Crowds have been gathering in Sweden's far north city of Kiruna to witness a landmark 113-year-old church being relocated in ...