Los kyrka: A parish church in Los-Hamra

Los kyrka is a parish church in the Los-Hamra parish of the Uppsala diocese. During the second half of the 1700s and the beginning of the 1800s, mining activity intensified in the areas around Los. In 1750, the first cemetery in Los parish was established, about 200 meters west of the current church site. Before the church was completed, regular services were held every Sunday in Henric Kalmeter's manor house.

The wooden church was built between 1818 and 1819. In 1848, the church was remodeled according to drawings by Johan Adolf Hawerman when the church tower was added. The exterior is clad in white-painted panel and features rectangular window openings with classicizing surrounds. The interior space, which has a neoclassical character, was decorated by the artist Albert Blombergsson. During a major restoration in 1937, the goal was to highlight the original style of the interior, making it appear as one of the more homogeneous in the landscape.

Inside, the church houses an altar-pulpit that was added ten years after the church's completion. A baptismal font carved from pine was sculpted by Olof Ahlberg in 1953, and six oil portraits from the 1700s are part of the church's collection. The current organ was built in 1946 by Harald Lindegren and is pneumatic with a tone range of 56/30. It was renovated in 1970 and 1982 by Gunnar Carlsson.

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