The Annedal Church ( sv, Annedalskyrkan) is a
church building
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in
Annedal
Annedal is a district of Gothenburg, Sweden, which falls with the borough of Linnéstaden. It is older traditional working class district. Much of the original housing was demolished in the late 1960s and early 1970s for the construction of mo ...
in
Gothenburg
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,
Sweden
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. Belonging to the
Gothenburg Annedal Parish
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of the
Church of Sweden
The Church of Sweden ( sv, Svenska kyrkan) is an Evangelical Lutheran national church in Sweden. A former state church, headquartered in Uppsala, with around 5.6 million members at year end 2021, it is the largest Christian denomination in Sw ...
, construction begun in 1908 and the church was opened on
Thanksgiving Day
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, 25 September 1910 by bishop
Edvard Herman Rodhe
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.
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19th-century Church of Sweden church buildings
Churches in Gothenburg
Churches completed in 1910
Churches in the Diocese of Gothenburg