Museum Church

The old church in the Museum Park, in all the glory of the surrounding autumn colours.
(Link goes to a previous post about it.)

“For you shall go out in joy and be led forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.”
Isaiah 55:12

The Two Towers

Another view from the top of the Rock: The two dominant church towers.
(Both churches belong to the Church of Sweden, which until 2000 was state church.)
The two smaller green towers sticking up to the right belong to the Town Hall.

17th Century Church

  

   

The old church in the museum park, with bell tower and gate. The church is from the end of the 17th century, but like all the other buildings in the museum park it is not in its original site but was moved here from somewhere else. (They are all from the local area around here though.)

   

Last year the bell tower was being repaired, then the roof was on the ground and I was able to get a close-up photo of it! - My photo of the interior of the church is from last year, too. The church is popular for weddings and also used for other occasional church services.

The light conditions were a bit tricky this day, very sharp contrasts between light and shadow. Almost for the first time, I experimented a little with manual setting of exposure… Hmmm. I shall have to practice this a bit more, I think!

The “thing” you see out on the lawn there is a gate which is part of an outdoors art exhibition this summer – Gates, the Dream of the Secret Garden. These are not old gates, but new ones, made especially for the exhibition. I intend to show more of those next week (also at Soaring Through the World, where Fences and Gates is the theme for next week).

Mosaic Monday: Church Reflections

Same church as in yesterday’s post. Look carefully at the window. Part of what you see is the reflection of the view outside (compare the street photo), but at the same time you also see across the church room inside and get a glimpse of another window on the other side of the building. The church is from the 17th century but there was another church in the same spot since medieval times.

See more Monday Mosaics at Mary’s Little Red House.

Church Tower

 

Those evening bells! Those evening bells!
How many a tale their music tells,
Of youth, and home, and those sweet time,
When last I heard their soothing chime.
..

Thomas Moore

17th Century Church

This church, finished in 1669 (the tower added in 1681) is the oldest building in our town, withstanding four big fires that ravaged the town in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries. In the same place there was also a church back in medeival times.

... you also, as living stones, are being built up a spiritual house, a holy priesthood ...

1 Peter 2:5

Christmas Day

When the angels had left them and gone into heaven,

the shepherds said to one another,

'Let's go to Bethlehem and see this thing

that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.'

So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph,

and the baby, who was lying in the manger.

Luke 2:15,16

Sticking Up

“The perfect church service,would be one we were almost unaware of.
Our attention would have been on God.”
C.S. Lewis

All Saints Day Collage