Everything at this world-famous cemetery has been carefully designed, from the landscape to the smallest details inside the chapels.
Between 1915 and 1940, architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz designed Skogskyrkogården with the aim of bringing the landscape and buildings together. They wanted the landscape and buildings to evoke life and death, hope and sorrow, light and darkness. Together, the landscape and architecture reflect the cycle of life.
Skogskyrkogården is not only a cemetery. It is also a landscape rich in plant and animal life. The architects intended for the buildings and environment to form one unified place, centered around nature. The site features open grasslands, an elm-covered hill, pine forests and a pond where salamanders thrive.
The buildings combine different architectural and artistic styles.
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