Hjorthagen Church, Stockholm

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Hjorthagen Church

See a largely preserved early-20th-century church interior with a gilded wooden stag in the chancel.

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Hjorthagen Church stands on the highest part of Jägarberget, in Stockholm’s Hjorthagen quarter. Built in red brick on a concrete foundation, it was erected between 1907 and 1909. Wikidata gives 1909 as its opening year and lists it as heritage-listed. The exterior follows architect Carl Bergsten’s 1907 plans.

Inside, the church has a basilica-shaped layout: a broad, barrel-vaulted central nave with a clerestory, flanked by low, narrow side aisles. The church says the interior, apart from the organ façade, remains intact as an example of early-20th-century design. Filip Månsson painted the nave decorations, Eigil Schwab made the stained glass in the chancel, and Tore Strindberg sculpted the lime-mortar altarpiece. Strindberg also made a 173-centimetre wooden stag, gilded and placed in the chancel.

The grounds are a park rather than a burial ground. Granite walls and stairs enclose the site, with two entrances in the wall facing Dianavägen. Their wrought-iron gates are decorated with running stags and the initials HK and EF. The parish hall stands east of the church and was originally built to E Lundroth’s plans in 1902. The Hjorthagen church page gives no visitor hours or admission price.

Hjorthagen Church, Stockholm
Photo: Ulkl / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Hjorthagen Church, Stockholm
Photo: Ulkl / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Hjorthagen Church, Stockholm
Photo: Ulkl / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
Photo: L.G.foto / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
Photo: L.G.foto / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
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