KIRUNA, Sweden (AP) — How do you move one of Sweden’s most beloved wooden churches down the road? With a little engineering, a lot of prayer — and some Eurovision for good luck. The Kiruna Church — ...
The town of Kiruna, Sweden, has been undergoing a relocation process since 2014. The move came amid concerns that a nearby mine would pose danger to the town. In October 2017, a massive heritage ...
KIRUNA, Sweden — How do you move one of Sweden’s most beloved wooden churches down the road? With a little engineering, a lot of prayer — and some Eurovision for good luck. The Kiruna Church — called ...
KIRUNA, Sweden — How do you move one of Sweden’s most beloved wooden churches down the road? With a little bit of engineering, a lot of prayer — and some Eurovision for good luck. The Kiruna Church — ...
KIRUNA, Sweden ― Near the top of the world, more than 90 miles into the Arctic Circle, lies Kiruna. Nestled between two mountains, it’s a small but sprawling city of 18,000 people with views over two ...
Weighing 713 tonnes and spanning more than a century of history, Kiruna Church is among Sweden’s largest wooden buildings. The relocation, five kilometers across town, represents not just a technical ...
Even the 2pm setting sun, suffusing frigid Lapland below and ruddy clouds above with coppery good cheer, can’t outshine it. From thousands of feet up it flashes like a lighthouse and dominates the ...
How do you go about moving an entire city? That was the question the remote Swedish mining town of Kiruna faced in 2004 when its 18,000 residents learned that the ground below it was growing ...
Kiruna, the northernmost town in Sweden, is featured in this snowy image captured by the Copernicus Sentinel-2 mission. Kiruna, visible in darker tones just left of the centre in the image, is located ...