The Karesuando Church ( sv, Karesuando kyrka) is a wooden church building in

Karesuando Karesuando (; fi, Kaaresuvanto or ; Sami: , or ) is the northernmost locality in Sweden. It is situated in Kiruna Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden, with 303 inhabitants in 2010 and 350 in 2011. It is a church village, located alongside ...

, Sweden. Belonging to the Karesuando Parish 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 ...

. It was inaugurated on 3 December 1905 by Bishop

Olof Bergqvist Olof Bergqvist (24 September 1862 – 20 October 1940) was a Swedish bishop. He was the first bishop in the Diocese of Luleå, serving in that office from 1904 to 1937.

of the

Diocese of Luleå The diocese of Luleå ( sv, Luleå stift) is a Swedish diocese of the Church of Sweden. List of Bishops *Olof Bergqvist : 1904~1937 * Bengt Jonzon : 1937~1956 *Ivar Hylander : 1956~1966 * Stig Hellsten : 1966~1980 *Olaus Brännström : 1980~1 ...

., replacing an older church. The church is the northernmost in Sweden.

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{{coord, 68.4418, N, 22.4817, E, source:wikidata, display=title 20th-century Church of Sweden church buildings Churches in Norrbotten County Churches completed in 1905 Wooden churches in Sweden Churches in the Diocese of Luleå 1905 establishments in Sweden