Kiruna Church was jacked up 4 feet from the ground, and then placed onto steel beams supported by two trains of 28 axle lines. (Courtesy Mammoet) Watching a building get built can be sublime. In ...

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 ...

Sweden Church Relocation People look at the Kiruna Church, a Sami style wooden Swedish Lutheran church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, in Kiruna, Sweden, Monday, Aug. 18, 2025, a day before it will ...

On the western border of Kiruna, Sweden, the state-owned mining company, LKAB, has been extracting iron ore from the Kirunavaara mountains for over a decade. But the long-term mining has caused ...

KIRUNA, Sweden -- The members of Kiruna Church primarily worship in Swedish, their country's main language. But this Lutheran church some 120 miles above the Arctic Circle seeks to incorporate the ...

When mining forced the Swedish town of Kiruna to move in 2014, city planners promised a fresh start. But residents say the new town has lost the warmth that defined the old one - both in spirit and ...

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 — ...

Last week (19-25 February), the most-watched movie on Netflix was a Swedish natural disaster thriller that went largely unheralded when it was released last year. While Frigga is just a character and ...

KIRUNA, Sweden -- The beginning of the end of Europe's dependency on China for precious rare earth materials may lie buried deep under the rugged reaches of northern Sweden, well above the Arctic ...