Skeppsholmskyrkan

Stockholm, Sweden

Skeppsholmskyrkan is a church on the islet of Skeppsholmen, secularized in 2002. Named after its location, the church was built 1823-1849 to replace a minor wooden church on Blasieholmen destroyed in the devastating fire of 1822. Inaugurated by King Charles XIV John and still officially carrying his name, it was designed by the architect Fredrik Blom as a neoclassical octahedral temple inspired by the Pantheon in Rome, borrowing the coffered ceiling while substituting the oculus for the temple-shaped lantern light. On all sides, the plain white walls restored in 1998 are pierced by portals whose four pillars support semi-circular lunettes. Inside the cruciform exterior, the interior sheet of the wooden double cupola is supported by paired doric columns and rounded arches. Accompanying the painted altarpiece are niches with statues of the apostles and two plaster groups.

The Skeppsholmen parish was discontinued in 1969 when the Navy moved to Muskö, and the church was secularized in 2002. Since May 2009, the building is called Eric Ericsonhallen, named after the Swedish conductor Eric Ericson and is a Concert Hall managed by the Eric Ericson International Choral Centre.

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Founded: 1823-1849
Category: Religious sites in Sweden
Historical period: Union with Norway and Modernization (Sweden)

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Mohammad Shaheen (54 days ago)
Attended the candle light show and it was amazing , great place to spend the evening with very cozy atmosphere . Recommended
Oscar Uribe (3 months ago)
Beautiful venue for the candlelight concert!
David Boyce (3 months ago)
Great acoustics, brilliant musicians, beautiful music. Loved it. Just booked another concert!!
Viorica Triculescu (5 months ago)
Nice experience. Too bad we couldn’t understand the presentations of the pieces - it’s Swedish speaking only.
Nicole (7 months ago)
Unfortunately not the experience I was looking forward to. I would have posted this to FEVER but it sent me a email to review the experience yet when I click the link to do so it conveniently doesn't work....sus...Anyways I went to the Queen candle light experience. It started off a little...off key but it was fixed by the second song. You're not allowed to take pictures or video until they allow it. It was nice but it just feels like something was missing. It was very..."high". Maybe bass? I had also paid extra for a our picture to be taken and that never happened. Seriously not here to bash anything I just give honest reviews. Most of the issues were with the event planning not the musicians themselves. Also another thing that made no sense was by the time I was able to get any refreshments they had "closed". They only had one vendor for all those people. They couldn't have hired 2 or 3 people to sell refreshments for that amount of people? I mean that's only more money in their pockets. So I wasn't able to enjoy anything to eat or drink during the whole experience. Idk honestly, try it but it's not something I would recommend or go to again.
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