Gammelstad Church Town, or typically known as Gammelstad, is situated in Gammelstan, 10 km north of Luleå, Sweden, at the northern end of the Gulf of Bothnia. It is the best-preserved example of a type of settlement called kyrkstad ('church town') that was once widespread throughout northern Scandinavia. Listed as a World Heritage Site in 1996, the town is centred around the 15th-century Nederluleå Church surrounded by 424 wood-built houses. These houses were only used on Sundays and during religious festivals to accommodate worshippers from the surrounding countryside.
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