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2013 - Our Centenary Year

This new year sees us mark the move of the church building 100 years ago from its position just north of the city centre to its current leafy location.

Through the year we'll be reflecting on this extraordinary change of context, with special events, activities and services, details of which will be posted on this site as the year goes on.

 

Centenary Weekend Open Day and Service

Saturday 25 and Sunday 26 May

The Church that Ran Away?

On Saturday 25 May we have an Open Day from 11.00 to 15.00 in the church and hall.

There will be tours every hour on the hour, cream teas, and an exhibition of original documents about the move of the church building from the old site to the new.

Find out why they left downtown Norrmalm for their new home by the water.

Come and enjoy the beautiful building in its lovely setting and marvel at the work it took to move it across town all those years ago. 

 

Then on Sunday 26 May we welcome former Chaplain David Ratcliff to preach and preside for us at the 11.00 Service.

 

The Church that Ran Away?

The year will see us remembering rather than celebrating, lovely though our current location is.

We enjoy beautiful surroundings, but are a bit out on a limb. And there are those who might think that where we were before is just the sort of place a church worth it salt should be.

But the church's original location on Rörstrandsgatan was thought by some influential church members to be an undesirable location, with several brothels, a jail and a popular pub in the vicinity, and it was proposed that the whole building be moved to a new location.

The efforts of the Swedish Crown Princess Margaret, granddaughter of Queen Victoria, made that move possible.

Stone by stone in the year 1913, the church was moved and reconstructed in an old Swedish military cemetary. The reconstruction was supervised by a Swedish architect: A.E. Melander.

The vestry was added, the nave extended, and the entire move took a remarkable nine months.

100 Years On

All this will give us the chance to think about what it means to be a church in the city in our own day.