The Skeppsholmen Church ( sv, Skeppsholmskyrkan) is a former
church
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* Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities
* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
* Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship
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on the islet of
Skeppsholmen
Skeppsholmen is one of the islands of Stockholm. It is connected with Blasieholmen and Kastellholmen by bridges. It is accessible by foot from Kungsträdgården, past the Grand Hôtel and Nationalmuseum, by bus number 65, or by boat from Slussen ...
in central
Stockholm
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,
Sweden
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.
History
Named after its location, the church was built 1823-1849 to replace a minor wooden church on
Blasieholmen
Blasieholmen is a peninsula in central Stockholm, Sweden. It is located east of Kungsträdgården. Originally a small island, named Käpplingen, it became a peninsula, connected to Norrmalm, during the 17th century. Among the buildings at Blasie ...
destroyed in the devastating fire of 1822. Inaugurated by King
Charles XIV John
sv, Karl Johan Baptist Julius
, spouse =
, issue = Oscar I of Sweden
, house = Bernadotte
, father = Henri Bernadotte
, mother = Jeanne de Saint-Jean
, birth_date =
, birth_place = Pau, ...
on 24 July 1842 and still officially carrying his name, it was designed by the architect
Fredrik Blom
Fredrik Blom (24 January 1781 – 25 September 1853) was a Swedish officer, architect and professor at the Royal Swedish Academy of Arts.
Life
Fredrik Blom was born in Karlskrona. His father was a compass maker journeyman. He began his career as ...
as a
neoclassical octahedral temple inspired by the
Pantheon
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*Pantheon (Marvel Comics), a fictional organization
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in
Rome
, established_title = Founded
, established_date = 753 BC
, founder = King Romulus (legendary)
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, borrowing the
coffer
A coffer (or coffering) in architecture is a series of sunken panels in the shape of a square, rectangle, or octagon in a ceiling, soffit or vault.
A series of these sunken panels was often used as decoration for a ceiling or a vault, also c ...
ed ceiling while substituting the
oculus Oculus (a term from Latin ''oculus'', meaning 'eye'), may refer to the following
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for the temple-shaped
lantern light
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. On all sides, the plain white walls restored in 1998 are pierced by portals whose four pillars support semi-circular
lunette
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A lunette may also be segmental, and the arch may be an arc take ...
s. Inside the cruciform exterior, the interior sheet of the wooden double cupola is supported by paired
doric Doric may refer to:
* Doric, of or relating to the Dorians of ancient Greece
** Doric Greek, the dialects of the Dorians
* Doric order, a style of ancient Greek architecture
* Doric mode, a synonym of Dorian mode
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* Doric ...
columns and rounded arches. Accompanying the painted altarpiece are niches with statues of the apostles and two plaster groups.
Eric Ericsonhallen
The Skeppsholmen parish was discontinued in 1969 when the Navy moved to the
Muskö naval base
Muskö Naval Base is a Swedish underground naval facility on the island of Muskö just south of Stockholm in Haninge Municipality (Haninge Kommun).
The construction of the base started in 1950 and was completed 19 years later in 1969. During ...
, and the church was secularized in 2002.
Since May 2009, the building has been a concert hall called Eric Ericsonhallen. It was named after the Swedish conductor and choral conductor
Eric Ericson
Eric Gustaf Ericson (26 October 1918 – 16 February 2013) was a Swedish choral conductor and influential choral teacher.
Life and career
He graduated from the Royal College of Music (''Kungl. Musikhögskolan'') in Stockholm in 1943 and w ...
(1918–2013).
See also
*
History of Stockholm
The history of Stockholm, capital of Sweden, for many centuries coincided with the development of what is today known as Gamla stan, the Stockholm Old Town. Stockholm's ''raison d'être'' always was to be the Swedish capital and by far the larges ...
References
External links
Eric Ericsonhallen website
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Churches completed in 1842
19th-century Church of Sweden church buildings
Churches in Stockholm
1842 establishments in Sweden
Concert halls in Sweden