Katarina Kyrka

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  • Address
    Högbergsgatan, Södermalm
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  • Phone
    743 68 00
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  • Transport
    underground rail: Medborgarplatsen

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Designed by Jean de la Valĺe and completed in 1695, the sublimely beautiful Katarina Kyrka stands on the 1520 burial site of the Stockholm Blood Bath victims - the betrayed Swedish nobility trapped, beheaded and burnt for opposing King Christian II's Danish invasion. The church itself caught fire in 1723. Restored, fire brought down the cupola again in 1990. It's since been painstakingly reconstructed using 17th-century building methods.

Assassinated Foreign Minister Anna Lindh lies buried in its leafy cemetery. Organ music fills the church at noon on Tuesdays and Thursdays.