Älvdalen Church, Church of Sweden church building in Älvdalens, Sweden

Älvdalen Church is a stone building with a rectangular nave and a semicircular chancel at the east end, where seven columns in a half-circle separate the altar area from the nave. The exterior walls are rough-rendered in lion yellow, while buttresses, corner mouldings and window surrounds are smooth white. The interior has a wooden barrel vault in the nave and a helmet vault in the chancel, with classical and Jugend-style decoration from the 1903–1905 restoration.

A chapel at Älvdalen is mentioned in the mid-1400s, but its site and form are unknown; it may have stood within the present walls. The first stone church was completed in 1585 and partly survives in today's building. It was extended south about a hundred years later and east in 1783. The west tower was built in 1816–1817, the rest remodelled in 1824–1826, and the 1903–1905 restoration by Rudolf Arborelius gave the church its present look.

The church has served as the primary gathering place for the community over many centuries, where families and neighbors came together for important occasions. The wooden benches and simple furnishings show how people marked weddings, celebrations, and regular Sunday services in this space.

The main entrance is on the west side through the tower, with smaller doors on the north and south sides for easier access. Visitors will notice bright interior light from tall, narrow windows and should take time to explore the wooden benches, the 1905 organ, and the three bells hanging in the tower.

The clock in the tower is struck not by the 1855 main bell but by the old middle bell, cast in 1585, which was kept for this purpose when the two newer bells were cast in 1903. South of the church stands the Älvdalen church barn, dendrochronologically dated to 1285 and one of Sweden's oldest surviving secular wooden buildings.