Thousands of Swedish church are very loved by her new home

Clara Nysterom was deeply transferred when she saw her loved wooden church in her city appearing on the horizon, and she shines in the sun while she was moving frankly towards her new home.

This week, the historical church in Kirona, the northern town of Sweden, was slowly transferred on wheels to a five -kilometer site.

Two days, live feed The event-which was called “The Great Church Move”-has achieved thousands of spectators, and represents a great milestone in the city’s process that lasted years ago to move completely to avoid swallowing by an underground mine other than the Earth’s foundation.

“I saw the church, and the sun was shining towards the church, and it is very beautiful,” said Nysterom, the municipal heritage officer in Kiruna. As it happens Guest host Catherine Coleen on Tuesday.

“Then he really hit me, like, it’s a very emotional thing.”

“It is a strange thing and a big thing.”

The 113-year-old Kiruna Kyrka Kiruna Kyrka began in Swedish-her journey on Tuesday and arrived at her new home on Wednesday.

However, it took nearly a decade to prepare to reach this point.

It was raised on wheels specifically designed with 224 wheels, a driver with a control stick, and a 672 tons building at a speed of 0.5 km below the road that was expanded to integrate 40 meters wide.

The journey took 12 hours spread over two days, with daily rest periods for Vika, the traditional Swedish coffee break in the afternoon.

Thousands lined the streets on Tuesday to provide Adieu bids, while others watched the event live via SVT, the public broadcaster in Sweden.

The Swedish King Carl XVI GUSTAF was hand in hand for Send-FF, which included a musical performance by Kaj, Sweden entrance 2025 eurovich.

Some people traveled from other cities and countries to see the slow scene in the town of approximately 23,000 people, about 200 km over the Arctic circle.

Swedish spectator Johan Arfili says he traveled 10 hours to be part of the event, which is awaiting him for years to see him.

“I had to see it because it is a strange thing and a big thing,” he said.

“Everyone has the connection to the church”

to Kiruna residents, this step has a much deeper meaning.

“Everyone who has the church is related to,” said Nysome.

It was designed in 1912 as a gift from LKAB, the state -owned mining company, the Swedish Lutheran Church was designed to simulate traditional treeA temporary residence that resembles a tent used by the indigenous people, many of whom call to Kiruna Home.

Factory Anna Christina Simma, Sámi, says that the building is the main pillar of everyone’s life, even if they do not go to the weekly services.

She said, “You start from when you are a child, a child, and throughout your life until you grow up.”

Nyström also feels a special relationship of the church, where she baptizes her children.

She said, “I love to be there, alone inside.” “When you walk and you will have this smell, like the smell of wood, this is just a feeling of the church. I love it.”

Before closing its doors last year in preparation for this step, She married 20 couples of Kiruna in one day in a big marriage of weddings.

“Kiruna kiruna left behind him”

Kiruno is home to the largest underground iron raw mine in the world, which provides about 80 percent of iron ore in the European Union, and is now looking for rare ground elements used in the manufacture of wind turbines and electric cars.

For years, the mine was expanding, causing land abnormalities that break the foundations of local buildings and endanger the city. Therefore, in 2004, Kiruna residents voted to transport the entire society about three kilometers away.

Some residents of Sámi criticize the continuous mine’s expansion, saying that it will threaten the ways of reindeer migration and weaken the ways of living shepherds in the region.

“I feel a little bit of disgust, in fact, because they pour millions of dollars … in this project, and the transfer of the church, but they do not help us in our culture,” said Lars Marcus Kohmonin, head of a Sami Rinna Care Organization in Kiruna.

“Even 50 years ago, my great grandfather said that the mine would eat our way of life, grazing reindeer, and he was right.”

Stephen Halmeld Johansson, Director of the LKAB project in this step, will not say how cost it the mining company.

Kiruna was transferred 10 years ago, and it is expected to continue until 2035.

Most of the buildings of 1,100 buildings are demolished and rebuilt, while each other is uprooted, such as the church, and it is toured to the new site.

Nesterum says that the church’s move is the end of an era of Carauna, but also at a new start.

“The Kiruna residents must sacrifice a lot,” Nesterom said. ” “He leaves ancient kiruna behind him.”

It will pass about two years before the Kiruna Church opens its doors to the public again. Nyström cannot wait to enter into the familiar space.

“I think the smell will be the same,” she said.

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With files from the Associated Press and Reuters. Interview with Clara Nyström produced by Livia Dyring