Relocation of the Kiruna’s historic wooden church

The Vicar of the church of Kiruna, Lena Tjarnberg, stands next to Asa Nystrom, bishop of the diocese of Lulea, on the day the historic wooden church is blessed, before it is moved to a new site next to the cemetery, to save its wooden walls from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine, in Kiruna, Sweden August 19, 2025. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger