The center of the island and the pride of the people of Fårö.
The church is open for visits daily 09.00 - 18.00 between Easter and All Saints' Day.
Norra Gotland pastorate's website: www.svenskakyrkan.se
Fårö church is among the Fårö residents' greatest pride. With its magnificent pride, but also with its great significance and link to the past. The church is centrally located on the island and is often used today, at ceremonies such as. services, weddings, baptisms and funerals. Only from Fröjel and Fårö church hill you have a view of the sea, what both gives and takes. The cemetery is large, and in the northwest corner is Ingmar Bergman's well-visited tomb. Next door is the memorial grove, where everyone is welcome to light candles.
History of the Church
In the early 14th century, there was no church on Fårö.
One had to sail to the mainland to get married, baptized, or.
One day when two sheep islanders were getting married and sailing back from the bungee, there was a storm.
The bride's boat sank and the bride passed away.
The groom went for days and searched. One day he found her at the place we are today called "Brudreijvet". She received her funeral.
This story has been confirmed, as the heel from the bride's bridal shoe is preserved in the sacristy of Bunge Church. This made the people of Fårö come together and build a church on their home island.
A large fundraiser was started and the question of where the church would be built needed to be answered.
The people of the church decided that it should be built at Mölnorhauen, but every morning when the construction was to begin, yesterday's work had been demolished. In the end, it was understood that something was not right with the place. Di sma undar jordi did not think it was a good place to have the church.
So the people approached an old wise woman and asked for her advice. She said “Take out 2 oxen, fasten a cart, loaded with stone for the church building and rap them properly. Then let them go where they want and where they stay. There you will build your church. ”
That was exactly what they did and the oxen went and finally came to the church hill and lay down there.
The construction could be completed, without any problems from Di sma undar jordi and the church was completed in the beginning of 1323.
18th century
In the latter part of the 18th century, the lower and narrower tower was demolished and replaced by today's taller tower with its characteristic tower hood and spire, crowned by a yellow church cock.
Among the church's inventories are the two "Käuta paintings", see below, and baptismal fonts and procession crucifixes from the 14th century.
Equipment
Large cutlery
"Wi Fårö's men rightly may now say
About our fate (fate) for the poor and the rich
Visit this figure, read well and notice
How GOD is powerful in adversity strong
Wi Eder dett här afmåla wilje
That J the other again tell
When they wrote Thousand Six Hundred and Three
On Sanct Matthiae Day in gentle
Begärte (began) wi på Jsen at utgå
Capturing Skiä1-Fisk was our desire
But luck went differently for us
Wår wilja changed wåhr and wann
Right Fifteen Man woro wi in company
As Jsen brought öfwer the Waves
Jacob Nors the first I say wil
Christopher and Eskil and Nors Michel
Thomas Butlex there to Anders Austers
Staphen Gussemor and Hans followed
Rasmund Simunds and Hans Simunds with woro
Rasmus Ringvid and Peder Sudergård
Bottel Sudergård, Jurgen Mor, Hans Mor
Woro on Jsen from the solid Earth
We were taken to Gulland from Wår Fåreö
Just from there and go to Gullands Sandsö
There.hafwa Three of the aforementioned Men
From us to Sandö he went
As woro Peder and Bottel Södergård
Jurgen Mother with the Third War
The was brought back by God's providence
To Fåra-ö again both karske and sound
Wi others blefwo on Jsen all fast
Must follow it, Wiste ej hwart
J Regret, Hunger, Frost and great Lifespan
The bitter death was always before our eyes
Our stove was uncooked (uncooked) Skiäle-Kiöd
It math wi eat without Bread
J Fourteen days upheld det wårt Lif
Then GOD came and helped us at the same time
That Jsen drove him to the Land of Sweden
And redeemed us from the wind of Death
Wårfrudag i Fasta wi igienkom
To our Sheep Island, Wife, Children, House and Home. ”
Lilla Kutatavlan
“O wanderer, come and see and see what God is doing with us. It is a miraculous miracle. You will soon hear it.
before become knowledgeable now Hwad year and day it happened One Thousand Seven Hundred sixty seven The Twelfth March Misery.
I Jöns Långhammar with my son Lars moon exit. A day very early on the ice Kut to catch_ When it then caught we were us
to land begaf But ach what mourning weeping and sorrow for us remained of, for the ice had all of storm from the land drifted so far that no hope
for us was more about life, Wi lifted eyes up and barely saw our Öö (?) Decided therefore that o God on the ice die. With stubborn prayers we pray
God then turned to us who graciously saw us now in this our misery and on the third day sent two men who happily helped us
of the ice to our home from Michel, Lauters Lars, the two men may be who by God's command saved us from all danger For they to
seek us went in a Boat With which they helped us out of all our sorrow and let Wi had had to pray to and about the sea drift Without drinking
food Ho can describe our need But everything was forgotten we came to the country God was good to us and pious This was a Saturday night, then
the sun just went down When we came home and readers we beg you to join us, who will this time humbly thank,
Gudi prayers and… (?) Song ""
Dopfunten
Fårö's baptismal font is among the oldest fixtures and the size is worth noting, because by the 14th century, you would have room for both water and a child, when you baptized the whole child.
Crucifixion processions
The processional cross that hangs over the baptismal font used to sit on a long pole that was used by our priests when they went out to bless, among other things. fields. Today, the cross is wood-colored, but it has probably previously been painted in gold, black, red and / or silver. When the Catholic era was over on Fårö, in the 17th century, the cross was carried out of the church and ended up in the attic of the rectory. It lay there until it was found in 1960 and carried into the church again.
Source: Church of Sweden & Agneta Söderdahl
