Lagen och Liturgin: Kulturmiljölagstiftningen och Svenska kyrkan
(2021) KRMM55 20211Church and Mission Studies
- Abstract
- Initially, the subject of this paper was to investigate how the Swedish cultural heritage law (Kulturmiljölagen 1988:950) affects the church buildings of the Church of Sweden. When the parishes of the Church of Sweden wish to change their churches interiors to fit contemporary liturgical ideals they must first seek permission from the County Administrative Boards who ensures the preservation of the ecclesiastical heritage. According to Swedish cultural policy, the ecclesiastical heritage shall be preserved, used and developed.
Conducting an investigation of how the Swedish cultural heritage law affects the Church of Sweden would call for a far more extensive study than can be managed in this paper. Therefore, I decided to make a case... (More) - Initially, the subject of this paper was to investigate how the Swedish cultural heritage law (Kulturmiljölagen 1988:950) affects the church buildings of the Church of Sweden. When the parishes of the Church of Sweden wish to change their churches interiors to fit contemporary liturgical ideals they must first seek permission from the County Administrative Boards who ensures the preservation of the ecclesiastical heritage. According to Swedish cultural policy, the ecclesiastical heritage shall be preserved, used and developed.
Conducting an investigation of how the Swedish cultural heritage law affects the Church of Sweden would call for a far more extensive study than can be managed in this paper. Therefore, I decided to make a case study on one specific church’s remodeling. Furthermore, I wanted to choose a renovation and restauration that put this law to the test. The choice quickly fell upon the renovation and restauration of Fredrikskyrkan in Karlskrona. This remodeling project is interesting in many ways because it transforms the church interior in a radical way. It also ended up in court because the parish, Karlskrona-Aspö parish, and the County Administrative Board in Blekinge could not agree. How the court motivated their decision is therefore of great interest to this paper. However, this study aims not only to perform a case study of Fredrikskyrkan but also to study how the Church of Sweden and the Swedish National Heritage Board interprets and problematizes the cultural heritage law. This will be accomplished by studying two books published by both.
The remodeling project of Fredrikskyrkan is characterized by the new liturgical demands together with a desire to create a flexible room where activities, staff area and worship can be accommodated together. This paper draws the conclusion that the parish’s tough economic situation, together with new liturgical demands, are the primary motives behind the radical remodeling. The Church of Sweden is losing members due to a more secularized society and therefore the church must make room for activities and staff area, that can be combined with a worship room. Another interesting conclusion is that if the ecclesiastical heritage is to be preserved, it must still today work as a worship room. This is even highlighted as a decision by a court to allow Fredrikskyrkan's renovation. Churches were namely built for a reason which they still have to this day: room for the parish’s worship which is a central understanding of the ecclesiastical heritage. (Less)
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- author
- Sunnqvist, John LU
- supervisor
- organization
- course
- KRMM55 20211
- year
- 2021
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- Church of Sweden, Ecclesiastical heritage, the Swedish cultural heritage law, Fredrikskyrkan, Liturgical demands, Worship, Domus Dei, Domus ecclesia
- language
- Swedish
- id
- 9057142
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- 2024-08-30 14:24:19
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- 2024-08-30 14:24:19
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abstract = {{Initially, the subject of this paper was to investigate how the Swedish cultural heritage law (Kulturmiljölagen 1988:950) affects the church buildings of the Church of Sweden. When the parishes of the Church of Sweden wish to change their churches interiors to fit contemporary liturgical ideals they must first seek permission from the County Administrative Boards who ensures the preservation of the ecclesiastical heritage. According to Swedish cultural policy, the ecclesiastical heritage shall be preserved, used and developed.
Conducting an investigation of how the Swedish cultural heritage law affects the Church of Sweden would call for a far more extensive study than can be managed in this paper. Therefore, I decided to make a case study on one specific church’s remodeling. Furthermore, I wanted to choose a renovation and restauration that put this law to the test. The choice quickly fell upon the renovation and restauration of Fredrikskyrkan in Karlskrona. This remodeling project is interesting in many ways because it transforms the church interior in a radical way. It also ended up in court because the parish, Karlskrona-Aspö parish, and the County Administrative Board in Blekinge could not agree. How the court motivated their decision is therefore of great interest to this paper. However, this study aims not only to perform a case study of Fredrikskyrkan but also to study how the Church of Sweden and the Swedish National Heritage Board interprets and problematizes the cultural heritage law. This will be accomplished by studying two books published by both.
The remodeling project of Fredrikskyrkan is characterized by the new liturgical demands together with a desire to create a flexible room where activities, staff area and worship can be accommodated together. This paper draws the conclusion that the parish’s tough economic situation, together with new liturgical demands, are the primary motives behind the radical remodeling. The Church of Sweden is losing members due to a more secularized society and therefore the church must make room for activities and staff area, that can be combined with a worship room. Another interesting conclusion is that if the ecclesiastical heritage is to be preserved, it must still today work as a worship room. This is even highlighted as a decision by a court to allow Fredrikskyrkan's renovation. Churches were namely built for a reason which they still have to this day: room for the parish’s worship which is a central understanding of the ecclesiastical heritage.}},
author = {{Sunnqvist, John}},
language = {{swe}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Lagen och Liturgin: Kulturmiljölagstiftningen och Svenska kyrkan}},
year = {{2021}},
}