Gothenburg Cathedral

Domkyrkan

On the site where today's cathedral stands, once stood the Episcopal Church of Gothenburg and after it another cathedral. However, both were almost completely destroyed by city fires. The architect Carl Wilhelm Carlberg then designed the present cathedral, the foundations of which are still partly made of the ruins of the last cathedral. On May 21, 1815, the consecration by Bishop Johan Wingard took place, but it was not until 1827 that the building was actually completed.

Thus, most of the elements are now also from different eras. Only the wood-carved altar was reconstructed true to the original. The cathedral has been restored and improved several times and today it houses, among other things, new rooms for the deaconry and the musicians as well as its own "children's cathedral", which is located in the southern transept. The semi-columns located in the choir are made of wood, but thanks to a clever marbling of the wood they could well be mistaken for stone columns.