Sunne Church, Lutheran church in Sunne, Sweden
Sunne Church is a stone church in Sunne, built in Neo-Gothic style in 1887–1888 to designs by architect Adrian C. Peterson. It has a long nave with a three-sided chancel to the east, a tower to the west, and transepts extending north and south; a sacristy is attached between the chancel and the north transept.
A church has stood here since the Middle Ages. The first stone church was built in 1641 but was destroyed by lightning in 1699; it was rebuilt and enlarged in the 1790s, then burned down in 1886. The present Neo-Gothic church was built in 1887–1888 to designs by architect Adrian C. Peterson and consecrated in 1888.
The baptismal font is a 13th-century soapstone basin with a cauldron-shaped bowl on a short shaft. The altarpiece, painted by Simon Sörman, depicts the Resurrection of Christ. The pulpit from 1934 was built around an original neo-Gothic pulpit from 1888.
The church stands in central Sunne with the tower and main entrance facing west and the three-sided choir to the east; the sacristy is attached between the choir and the north transept. Services are held in the parish church of Sunne församling, and Sveriges Radio broadcast its Christmas Day service (julotta) from here in 2025.
The church is sometimes called "Fryksdalens domkyrka", the cathedral of the Fryksdalen valley, a nickname for a parish church far larger than its rural setting suggests. In 2025 Swedish Radio broadcast its Christmas Day service from here.
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