The Vasa Church () is a church in
Gothenburg
Gothenburg ( ; ) is the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, second-largest city in Sweden, after the capital Stockholm, and the fifth-largest in the Nordic countries. Situated by the Kattegat on the west coast of Sweden, it is the gub ...
, Sweden. It is located in the area of
Vasastaden, between
Hvitfeldtska gymnasiet and
Vasaparken. It was founded in 1909 and is built in a
Neo-Romanesque
Romanesque Revival (or Neo-Romanesque) is a style of building employed beginning in the mid-19th century inspired by the 11th- and 12th-century Romanesque architecture. Unlike the historic Romanesque style, Romanesque Revival buildings tended t ...
style, of
granite
Granite ( ) is a coarse-grained (phanerite, phaneritic) intrusive rock, intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly coo ...
that was brought from
Bohuslän
Bohuslän () is a Provinces of Sweden, Swedish province in Götaland, on the northernmost part of the country's west coast. It is bordered by Dalsland to the northeast, Västergötland to the southeast, the Skagerrak arm of the North Sea to the ...
. It underwent major renovations during 1999 and 2000.
External links
Vasaförsamlingen websiteOrgel Vasakyrkan
Churches in Gothenburg
Churches in the Diocese of Gothenburg
20th-century Church of Sweden church buildings
1909 establishments in Sweden
1900s establishments in Gothenburg and Bohus County
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