Öja Church (Gotland)

Aerial view of the church of Öja

Öja Church

The church of Öja ( Swedish Öja kyrka ) is a country church on Gotland , which belongs to the parish (Swedish församling ) Hoburg. It is located in the parish of the same name in southern Gotland, 68 km south of Visby and 1.5 km east of Burgsvik . Like the other churches in southern Gotland, it is made of sandstone. The oldest parts of the church date from the 12th century. The current nave was built towards the end of the 13th century, while the tower was built in the middle of the 14th century, at the end of the most active church building on Gotland, and comes from the stone master "Egypticus" .

Furnishing

The church contains many art-historically significant paintings and the only standing triumphal cross in Northern Europe .

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  Triumphal Cross from 1275

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  Sandstone altar from 1643

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  Pulpit from 1628

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  Baptismal font from 1620

swell

• Kyrkor i Gotland: Öja kyrka
• Original Swedish page from which the translation was made

Web links

Commons : Church of Öja (category)  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• guteinfo (Swedish, with pictures)
• Orgelanders (Swedish, with pictures)
• Hoburgs församling (Swedish, parish side)
• Building register at Riksantikvarieämbetet (Swedish)

literature

• Marita Jonsson, Sven-Olof Lindquist: Gotland cultural guide. Almqvist & Wiksell, Uppsala 1993, ISBN 91-88036-09-X , p. 197.
• Erland Lagerlöf, Gunnar Svahnström: The churches of Gotland. Stein, Kiel 1991, ISBN 3-89392-049-8 , pp. 212-215.

Coordinates: 57 ° 2 ′ 8 ″  N , 18 ° 18 ′ 1 ″  E