Sollerö kyrka

Also known as Sollerö Church

Architect

Olof Tempelman

Year

1779

Style

Neoclassical

Type

church

Sollerö Church rose between 1779 and 1785 on an island in Siljan, built by a parish that had just won the right to stop rowing to Mora for services: a royal charter of 1775 let the islanders form their own congregation, and the crossings…

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1779
Original construction
Olof Tempelman, Daniel Lundqvist
1788
Installation
Two galleries were built one above the other against the west gable of the church interior. Parts of the gallery barrier from the older chapel on the site were reused in the front of the upper gallery, so material from the building the…
1875-1877
Facade
The exterior was replastered and given an all-white finish for the first time. The shingle roof over the nave was replaced with slate from Glava, and inside the walls and vaults were whitewashed, so the church went from a shingled…
1910
Interior
The campaign that shapes the interior today, under Ragnar Östberg with the builder P. Sjöden. Hot-air heating was installed and the floor raised three to four steps. The old galleries came down and an organ gallery replaced them, carrying…
Ragnar Östberg
1937
Lillkyrkan
The roomy sacristy was fitted out as a chapel, Lillkyrkan, to a design by Erik Lindgren. New pews seating sixty were made in a seventeenth-century manner, and the pulpit from the old chapel on the site, together with medieval figures and…
1968-1969
Facade
The roof structure was strengthened and the façades replastered and given back their pink colouring, ending the all-white finish the church had carried since the 1870s. The windows were repaired and repainted. The work was led by the…
1992
Facade
The façades were replastered and coloured white again, returning the exterior to the finish it had before the pink of the 1960s. Inside, the vaults and walls were cleaned and repainted in the original colour scheme, work carried out by the…