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Ragunda - Gamla kyrka (Old Church)

City: Ragunda lies in a complete beautifully area between mountains and the sea. This town is very popular with tourists and is the most popular attraction with tourists. Ragunda is a municipality in the north of Sweden, in the province Jämtlands län. The area of this municipality is so large that with an estimated 6300 inhabitants there are about 2 inhabitants for every square kilometer (km ²).

Building: The Gamla kyrka or Old church was probably built in the year 1400 by a Danish monk. A remarkable detail is that the church has no doorways or windows to the north. This was because it was believed that evil would come from the north. A new church was built in 1853. The next reopening was in 1931. The church is now used during the summer.

Object: God’s name is found several times inside in the church. Band of images 1: In the first instance God’s name is placed on the pulpit chair. Inside a radiating sun is written the Hebrew characters JHWH. Band of images 2 - photo 1 and 2: in a wooden plaque work. Band of images 2 - photo 3 and 4: a third time on a church door constructed in 1696. Here God’s name is written in Latin: Iehova

 

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Band of images 1 foto 2 and 3 / Band of images 2 : pictures received from www.gudsnamnet.se - many thanks!

 

 

 

 

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