Feskekörka (;

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: ''Fiskkyrkan'', "fish church") is an indoor

fish market A fish market is a marketplace for selling fish and fish products. It can be dedicated to wholesale trade between fishermen and fish merchants, or to the sale of seafood to individual consumers, or to both. Retail fish markets, a type of wet ma ...

in Gothenburg, Sweden, which got its name from the building's resemblance to a

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church.Claes Caldenby, Gunilla Linde Bjur, Sven-Olof Ohlsson. Guide till Göteborgs arkitektur, Arkitektur förlag (2006) It opened on 1 November 1874, and was designed by the city architect Victor von Gegerfelt. Feskekörka is an institution in Gothenburg as well as a tourist magnet, housing one of the city's oldest trades, fishing. Apart from a fish market, there is also a fish and seafood restaurant in the building.

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