Arholma kapell was built from a dismantled mission house

Arholma kyrka, also known as Arholma kapell, is located on Kvarnberget above Kägelbacken on Arholma in northern Roslagen. The building belongs to the Väddö parish in the Uppsala diocese and the Svenska kyrkan. The building was consecrated on 30 September 1928. Before the 1870s, islanders gathered for services in a cottage, and later moved to a schoolhouse. In 1926, calls for a church were made in newspapers, leading the Evangelical-Lutheran Mission Congregation to donate a mission house from Kungsholmen in Stockholm. After being dismantled, the timber was transported to Arholma by a Vätöskuta. The chapel was reconstructed on its current site and consecrated by Archbishop Nathan Söderblom.

The architectural drawings were made by architect Oscar Holm, a long-time summer guest on the island, while Harald Lindberg, born and raised on the neighboring island of Björkö, was responsible for the artistic decoration. The chapel consists of a nave with an attached entrance wing on one short side. The main entrance is in the wall of the entrance wing, with five quarry stones situated in front of it. The nave has three windows on each side. The walls are clad with white-painted timber panels and stand under a pitched roof. The foundation is built directly on the cliff.

On one side of the roof sits a roof rider with a church bell, and on the other side is a weathervane with the year 1928. The decorative paintings by Harald Lindberg date back to the year of the church's consecration. The altarpiece is signed by Harald Lindberg 1927-1928. The baptismal font is made of wood with a tin baptismal bowl. Above the pulpit in the front part of the nave hangs a three-masted votive ship donated in 1928. An electric organ was gifted to the chapel in 1975, replacing a previously used harmonium.

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