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A historic wooden church in northern Sweden is being moved across the town of Kiruna to make way for the expansion of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine. The two-day operation is relocating the church about 3 miles to Kiruna’s new town centre, part of a decadeslong plan to shift the entire community. Mining beneath Kiruna by the state-owned company LKAB since 1910 has destabilized the ground, causing subsidence.
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Martin Rundkvist · 55w
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqq8dzf4dwd95jdlm5trcuf036u4htqsgcveuzdzcdf9m585z02whq089vf2 There are a few odd aspects to this. 1. The Swedish Church has sold or demolished a couple of major churches elsewhere that were decades older than this one. 2. The townspeople of #Ki...