Folkets Park (Danish for "People's park") is a small park in
Nørrebro in
Copenhagen
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, situated between
Griffenfeldsgade and Stengade.
The park was established by local residents in 1971, who also converted a disused building in the park into a community center, ''
Folkets Hus
People's Houses (russian: Народный дом) were originally leisure and cultural centres built with the intention of making art and cultural appreciation available to the working classes. The first establishment of this type appeared in T ...
''. After intermittent attempts to clear the park, the City of Copenhagen accepted it as a park in 2008, and performed some renovation.
References
Parks in Copenhagen
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