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There is an idea behind everything at the world-famous cemetery. From the different places in the landscape to small details inside the chapels.

Skogskyrkogården was created between 1915 and 1940 by architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz. Their mission was to create a unity of landscape and buildings that gives us visitors an experience of both life and death, hope and sorrow, light and darkness, nature and architecture — the cycle of life.

Landscape

Skogskyrkogården is not just a cemetery, it is also a place teeming with life. The architects’ idea with the site was to let the buildings and environment become a whole, with nature at its center. Open grassland, a hill with elm trees and pine tree forests. And a pond where salamanders thrive.