Flamman, Movie theater and architectural ensemble in Gothenburg, Sweden.
Flamman is an architectural ensemble in Gothenburg featuring a light plastered facade, nearly flat roof, and windows without mullions that embody 1930s functionalist design. Inside, the original cinema held roughly 684 seats alongside two retail spaces and a caretaker's residence.
Flamman opened on 14 October 1935 with the film Flickornas Alfred and the short Havet lockar, in a building designed by Sten Branzell, who drew up the 1935 city plan with Uno Åhrén. It closed as a cinema on 31 December 1982. Since 1983 the Göteborgs Finska Pingstförsamling has used it as a place of worship, rebuilding parts of the auditorium and adding a meeting room and a gallery.
The name Flamman, Swedish for "the flame", was the cinema's own name from its opening on 14 October 1935. The opening programme paired the feature Flickornas Alfred with the short Havet lockar. Since 1983 the Göteborgs Finska Pingstförsamling has held services in the former auditorium, where a meeting room and a gallery were added during the conversion.
The building sits at Redbergsvägen 19 in the Gårda district and is straightforward to locate. Since it now serves as a community center, visiting hours can vary, so checking ahead is a good idea.
Builder Olle Engkvist was simultaneously overseeing several major construction projects across the city. These parallel efforts reveal the scale of modernization happening in Gothenburg during that decade.
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