# A historic red wooden church considered one of Sweden’s most beautiful buildings was moved across the Arctic town of Kiruna today to its new home. to allow Europe’s biggest underground mine to expand. Kiruna’s entire town centre is being relocated because of the iron ore mine, whose ever deeper burrowing has weakened the ground, increasing the risk of collapse. The imposing 672-tonne Swedish Lutheran church from 1912, was moved five kilometres on remote-controlled flatbed trailers, moving at a snail’s pace of half a kilometre an hour.
Historic Swedish church relocated on remote-controlled flatbed trailers