Haga Church

The Hagakyrkan rises above the roofs of a former working-class district in Gothenburg. The church was opened on the first Advent in 1859 and was one of the first churches in Sweden to be built in the neo-Gothic style.

If you take a look around this picturesque part of town today, you will see numerous shops and cosy restaurants alongside the historic houses. This is a region where tourists feel particularly at home. The inhabitants of Haga had already expressed their wish for the construction of a church to the authorities of the time in the 17th century, but it was to take around two centuries before their hopes were fulfilled generations later. Donations raised around 150,000 crowns.

Adolf W. Edelsvärd, who among other things had been responsible for the construction of the railway stations in Stockholm and Malmö, was chosen as the architect. Under his direction, a basilica with three naves, a ground plan in the shape of a cross and a church tower almost fifty metres high, crowned by a gilded copper roof, was built in the Gothenburg district of Haga on a hill that had served as a quarry in earlier times. The frames of the windows and the portals were made of a sandstone supplied from Edinburgh. The wooden sculptures grouped around the chancel are dedicated to the four evangelists. In 1991 the original organ was replaced by an American Brombaugh organ. The North German Baroque was the inspiration for its construction. Because of its rich sound and the first-class acoustics in the nave, concerts are often held here.