Gällivare Church

1882 wooden church on the site of an older Sami chapel — known as the 'one-öre church' from how it was funded

The current wooden church dates from 1882, replacing an earlier chapel from 1747. The interior is plain — a single nave, wooden pews, a painted altarpiece — but it is one of the older Christian sites in this part of Lapland, and a quiet place to step into away from the bustle of the town centre.

In the churchyard you can see a couple of Sami grave markers as well as the standard Lutheran headstones.

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A story
The original 1747 chapel on this site was funded by a national collection in which every Swedish parish was asked to contribute one öre per person — and from this it became known as 'Ettöreskyrkan', the one-öre church. The current 1882 building still carries the nickname.