Santa maria magdalena kyrka
Boka semesterboende med självhushåll nära Santa Maria Magdalena kyrka säkert online. The church plan has a nave but no aisles. In its eastern end is a three-sided choir and the transept taking up three bays. In the corners of the crossing are enlargement from various periods, all serving liturgical purposes, including the sacristy. The painting of the high altar is the Adoration of the Shepherds by Louis Masreliez from around The pulpit , the Baroque design of Carl Johan Cronstedt , was inaugurated in and carries a medallion with the portrait of Mary Magdalene.
The front of the organ was designed by Carl Fredrik Adelcrantz in while the present stop organ is from A second organ was added in and in the choir is a third smaller organ. The baptismal font dates back to and among the sacramental vessels which survived the fire in , is the oldest effects of the church - a sacramental pan in copper with capital inscriptions.
Among the epitaphs in the church are one dedicate to Christopher Polhem and another to Carl Michael Bellman. Under the church are older sepulchral chambers.
Alongside the southern part of the churchyard are burial chapels of which one today serves the parish of the Finnish Orthodox Church in Sweden. The church's history dates back to the s when King Magnus Eriksson with the permission of Pope Clement VI had a funeral chapel built on the location and dedicated it to Mary Magdalene. What then happened to the building is poorly documented.
A copperplate depicts it as a small building with a single nave adorned with a large tower with a pointy spire. When Gustav Vasa liberated Stockholm in the early s, his troops led by Peder Fredag see Peder Fredags Gränd encamped in the chapel and suffered severe losses when the troops of Christian II of Denmark attacked from the city.
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This might have been one of the reasons Vasa had all churches, monasteries, and chapels on the ridges surrounding the city destroyed after the introduction of Protestantism in , including the chapel of Mary Magdalene. His death in caused construction work to halt, and the church remained uncompleted until The spire of the former, however, inaugurated in and according to himself the most beautiful spire in Stockholm, was destroyed in a fire in together with some buildings in the neighbourhood.
Superintendent Carl Johan Cronstedt was commissioned to rebuild the church and had his task completed in He humbly respected both his older colleagues and preserved much of their design, and the church is still largely intact since. An interior restoration was made in and the exterior yellow colour was improved in Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.
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