World Heritage Skogskyrkogården
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Location: Enskede, southern Stockholm
Price: 75–150 SEK
An art, culture and architectural walking tour through the world famous cemetery with a stop in one of the chapels.
Guided public tours summer 2024
Every Saturday at 11.30am, July—September (except September 7).
Skogskyrkogården, “The Woodland Cemetery”, was created between 1917 and 1940 by the architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. On a pine-covered ridge, they created a sacred outdoor space with several small chapels that blend in with nature.
The architects designed the entire cemetery, from the landscape to the smallest lamp. The core of the design is to evoke an experience of death and life being a never ending process.
Today, it is globally considered one of the most important creations of modern architecture. The Skogskyrkogården was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1994.