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The Gammelstad Church Village just outside the city of Luleå is included on the World Heritage List as the largest and best preserved church village in northern Sweden – a type of settlement typical of northern Scandinavia.
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A church village consists of small wooden cottages built tavelled a church by church-goers from remote areas in the region, who around to the village to celebrate the major religious holidays. The reason that such villages were built in northern Sweden is precisely the long distances that many people had to cover to get to church.The World Heritage site consists of the 14th-century stone church, adjacent church cottages, the Mediaeval street pattern and buildings dating back to the 17th century. The red cottages were used in their traditional way up until the 1950s. The village is now a living community, while some of the cottages are still used by church-goers, expecially in summer, when many youngsters come here for their confirmation.
Traditional Sami handicraft, or slojd, is one of the most important bearers of traditional Sami culture.
If you’d like to discover the Sweden of today, knowing something about its past is a good place to start. And what a past it is.
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