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Storkyrkan

Storkyrkan

Also known as Stockholm Cathedral, Stockholms domkyrka, Stockholms storkyrka, Storkyrkan i Stockholm

Year

1200

Style

Gothic

Type

church

Stockholm's cathedral traces back to a first church built around 1264 with the support of Birger Jarl. A three-aisled structure was consecrated in 1306, and over the next two centuries it grew into a five-aisled hall church in brick…

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Storkyrkan
Storkyrkan
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Timeline

  1. 1736-1743

    Renovation

    City architect Johan Eberhard Carlberg rebuilt the exterior between 1736 and 1743. The medieval brick was rendered, the buttresses were reworked as pilasters with banded rustication, and the west tower was given a new crown, so that the…

    Johan Eberhard Carlberg

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