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Enånger - Gamla Kyrka

City: Enånger is a place in the Swedish province of Gävleborg län, found in the middle of Sweden on the east side, 8 kilometers from the Baltic Sea. This place is described as a picturesque with pleasant surroundings. There are 710 inhabitants in Enånger in an area of 1.42 km². Historically, Enånger was an important port for import and export, especially salt.

Hudiksvall, to which Enånger belongs, is a city which as an area of no less than 4538.8 km². The city obtained its city rights in 1582 from Johann III of Sweden. Today the city is a centre of industry.

 

Building: Gamla kyrka (Old church)

The previous church on this site, built around the year 1200, was replaced in the 1400s by the current church. The paintings in the vaults are regarded to be one of the most valuable examples of late-medieval monumental painting in Sweden. These paintings date back to 1470-1480.

 

The name of God: The Divine name is found above the pulpit. On a radiating sun the tetragrammaton including Masoretic vowel marks is written .


 

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1*: Photo: Wikimedia Commons (©Sendelbach / license Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
2*: Photo: Wikimedia Commons (©Mikael Lindmark) / license Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Sweden
3*: Photo: Wikimedia Commons (©Ulca08) / public domain
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5*: Photo: Wikimedia Commons (©Håkan Svensson (Xauxa) / licenses: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported and GNU Free Documentation
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