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This week, thousands of visitors have descended upon Kiruna, Sweden’s northernmost town, 124 miles above the Arctic Circle.
What has wheels and crawls along at half a kilometer an hour? A church in Sweden, of course! A convoy of remote-controlled ...
The fascinating city relocation project in Kiruna, Sweden, reaches a new milestone as the iconic Kiruna Church is moved in ...
Kiruna Kyrka, an imposing 672-tonne Swedish Lutheran church from 1912, is being moved five kilometres (three miles) on remote ...
A landmark Swedish church in the Arctic arrived Wednesday at its new home after a two-day move across the town of Kiruna to ...
A landmark Swedish church arrived yesterday at its new home after a two-day move across the Arctic town of Kiruna, in a move ...
The relocation is part of a much larger effort to move the entire town of Kiruna to accommodate the expansion of Europe’s largest underground iron ore mine.
Watch live as an entire church in Sweden begins its move to its new home on Tuesday, 19 August. Kiruna Church is being ...
Kiruna Church is being relocated to save it from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ...
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Kiruna Church in Sweden gets moved

The historic Kiruna Church in Kiruna, Sweden is being moved 5 km up the road due to the expansion of an iron ore mine.
After two days and 5 kilometers, Sweden’s landmark Kiruna Church arrived at its new location in Kiruna’s brand new city ...