The Haga Church is a church building located in Gothenburg, Sweden. Belonging to the Gothenburg Haga Parish within the Diocese of Gothenburg 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 opened on Advent Sunday, 27 November 1859. Construction of the church began in 1856. The church and also the pulpit was designed by architect Adolf W. Edelsvärd.

Organs and organists

The first organ was installed in 1861 by the Danish firm

Marcussen & Søn Marcussen & Søn, also known as Marcussen and previously as Marcussen & Reuter, is a Danish firm of pipe organ builders. They were one of the first firms to go back to classical organ-building techniques, and have been producing mechanical-acti ...

for the price of 20 000 Swedish crowns. It was rebuilt in 1911 (pneumatic action) and 1945–1951 (electric action) by the Magnusson organ building firm. It was restored to close to original condition 2002–2004 by Åkerman & Lund. The first

organist An organist is a musician who plays any type of organ. An organist may play solo organ works, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers or instrumental soloists. In addition, an organist may accompany congregational h ...

of the church was Per Johan Ållander who was hired in 1861 and the first cantor was Carl H Olsson who was hired 1863. A

meantone Meantone temperament is a musical temperament, that is a tuning system, obtained by narrowing the fifths so that their ratio is slightly less than 3:2 (making them ''narrower'' than a perfect fifth), in order to push the thirds closer to pure. Me ...

organ by

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was installed in the north balcony in 1991–1992.

References

External links

information from the Gothenburg Haga Parish
Churches in Gothenburg Churches in the Diocese of Gothenburg 19th-century Church of Sweden church buildings Churches completed in 1859 1859 establishments in Sweden Gothic Revival church buildings in Sweden {{Sweden-church-stub