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Sweden’s Kiruna Church Is On Move

Sweden’s Kiruna Church Is On The Move After More Than 100 Years

The move of the 130-foot-wide, 115-foot-tall structure represents the most striking chapter yet in a decades-long relocation project that has already shifted hundreds of homes, businesses, and public...

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Watch live: Sweden’s historic 600-tonne Kiruna Church begins move to new home

Sweden moves the historic Kiruna Church before an iron-ore mine swallows it

Historic Swedish church on move in logistical feat

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This Swedish church is moving 3 miles down the road. It's relocating before a mine swallows the town

The Kiruna Church — called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish — and its belfry are being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as part of the town’s relocation.

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Historic Swedish church transported on trailers to avoid being swallowed by mine

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Historic Swedish church on the move in logistical feat

Wooden church sets off on slow Swedish road trip to escape mining subsidence

Sweden's landmark Kiruna Church will begin a two-day trip to a new home on Tuesday, inching down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world's larges...

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Swedish Church Moving Across Town

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Swedish church sets off on three-mile road trip to new city centre

Swedish church to move five kilometres down the road as new mine threatens town

This week’s move has turned into a two-day highly choreographed media spectacle, run by LKAB and featuring an appearance by Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf.

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Historic Swedish church to relocate on trailers in logistical feat

How do you move a beloved Swedish church down the road? With prayer, engineering and some Eurovision

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Swedish church is being moved down the road

The Kiruna Church is being moved this week along a three-mile route east as part of the town’s relocation. It’s happening because the world’s largest underground iron-ore mine is threatening to swallow the town.

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From Unstable Ground, an Old Church Rolls to a New Home

Mining in Kiruna, Sweden, has jeopardized the ground below a beloved church. Thanks to a feat of engineering, it is on the move.

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Timelapse video shows Swedish church being slowly moved to new location

Video shows a timelapse of a church in Kiruna, Sweden, being slowly moved to a new location as the expansion of the world largest underground iron ore mine threatens to swallow the city's building. The 741-ton Kiruna Church will move as fast as 0.