Watch This Church Being Moved Down The Road Before A Mine Swallows Its Town
Kiruna, Sweden (AP) – How do you move someone? Sweden’s most popular wooden churches Is it on the road?
A little engineering, a lot of prayer – and some Eurovision for good luck.
Kiruna Church -Sweed is called Kyrka-This week, it is carried along a 5-kilometer (3 mile) road as part of the displacement of the town.
This is happening because the world’s largest underground iron focus threatens to swallow the mine.
This week, thousands of visitors landed on Kiruna, the north town of Sweden 200 kilometers (124 miles), 200 kilometers (124 miles).
Sami hosts approximately 23,000 people, including the indigenous people, and spread to approximately 19,500 square kilometers (7,528 miles of square).
Lena Tjärnberg, the victory of the church, took action with a blessing on Tuesday morning after the church was removed on the beams to scream against the town.
Thousands of spectators came together in layers for strong winds and temperatures under 10 Celsius (50 Fahrenheit), while the church progressed for hours at glacial speed.
The journey is scheduled to end on Wednesday afternoon.
A gift from mining company
In 2001, the people of Sweden chose the Best Best Building built before 1950 in a survey of the wooden church of the wooden church. The worshipers built on a hill were able to ignore Kiruna, the Swedish Lutheran Church was designed to imitate the Sami style as a gift of the state mining company LKAB.
The Kiruna mine itself dates back to 1910 and the church was completed in 1912. The neo-gothic exterior is considered the most distinctive building of the town, and tourists traveled regularly before it was closed to prepare for displacement a year ago. At the end of 2026, it will be reopened in a new position.
Tjärnberg said the last service in the old point was bitter dessert.
“You know that it will be a few years to open up on the last day when you go down the stairs and close the church door – and in a new place,” he said. “We don’t know how to open the door.”
This week’s move turned into a two -day, extremely choreographed show, which is operated by LKAB and includes a appearance of Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf.
A set between music performances Kaj, Sweden’s 2025 Eurovision entrance that was Bookmakers’ favorite to win this year’s competition. Classic educated Austria JJ.
SVT, Sweden’s national publisher, broadcasts live and Billing as “Great Church Walking” To play your success Spring Show of “Great Deer Migration” This has been captivated by millions of viewers a year since 2019.
Kiruna, known for its midnight in the middle of the night and the northern lights, and the environment, a great draw throughout the year for visitors of Sweden Lapland.
The region also Aurora Sky StationIcehotel and Kebnekaise, the highest mountain of the Scandinavian country.
British tourists Anita and Don Haymes had marched twice before this year’s trip. When they heard the movement of the church, they changed their routes to ensure that they were here.
“Anita Haymes Sunday said,” Anita Haymes said. “It’s interesting, incredible to see it moving.”
The Swedish spectator Johan Arveli traveled for 10 hours to be a part of the crowd on Tuesday.
“I’ve been waiting for this for a few years,” he said. “I didn’t know what to expect. I had to see it because it’s a strange thing and something big.”
But not everyone is excited about LKAB’s Extravaganza. Lars-Marcus Kuhmunen, the president of one of the Sami Ren deer herd organizations in Kiruna, said that LKAB’s plans for a new mine could threaten the rind-up routes of reindeer and force the shepherds in the region.
Mechanics behind the movement
The movement of Kiruna’s city center has been in the work since 2004. As the mine expanded deeper underground, the inhabitants began to see cracks in buildings and roads. In order to reach a new depth of 1,365 meters (4,478 feet) and prevent the swallowing of Kiruna, the authorities began to move the buildings to a new city center at a safe distance from the mine.
As of July, 25 buildings were removed to beams and with wheels to the east. Sixteen people, including the church, remain.
The church required extra effort, with a width of approximately 40 meters (131 feet) weighted 672 metric tons (741 tons). The engineers expanded a large path from 9 meters to 24 meters (30 to 79 feet) and dismantled a viaduct to lead to a new intersection.
A driver who uses a large control box is a piloting along the road because he travels on Tuesday and Wednesday for about 12 hours – a pause every day for the traditional Sweden coffee break Fika. It is expected to move at a speed of 0.5 to 1.5 kilometers per hour (0.31 and 0.93 miles per hour).
Fida Albertsson, who moved to Kiruna six months ago, said that it was initially “very tense için for the movement of the church.
Um I was worried that he would break up, ”he said. “But it didn’t, that’s why I’m so happy.”
Stefan Holmblad Johansson, LKAB’s Movement Project Manager, would not tell the mining company how much it cost.
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