Oscarskyrkan — Attraction in Stockholm

Oscar's Church (Swedish: Oscarskyrkan) is one of the major churches in Stockholm, Sweden. The three-aisled hall church, which holds 1,200 people, has an 80-metre-high (260 ft) tower in the south-western part of the building. Oscar's Church is located in the south-eastern part of Östermalm, where Storgatan and Narvavägen meet, near the Swedish History Museum. Narvavägen is together with the nearby Strandvägen—from which the church is also visible—one of the city's main boulevards, lined with several...

Tired of walking and cold, I saw the church and instictively I felt it was a good idea to get inside. It was 4 p.m. so just dark for Stockhokm in late november. The hall was warm. Nobody was there excepted a young mother with a very little child (girl) who was playing with a toy a sweet melody. I spent there a few minutes. I appreciated the neo gothic architecture of the building: linear, regular, very polite. A balanced kind of sculpture for the columns. A tipical northern church....

It was an unexpected experience when we entered the temple and heard some piano music, some jazzy first and then classical. It was a bishop playing, and then we saw a woman in a bishop's closes who was probably preparing to baptise a little child. All was so unusual and so simple at a time! It was beautiful! Totally everything! It was something which was giving a feel of ease...