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Building    From 1728 

Swedish Church

Categories: Religion

Countries: Sweden

Swedish Church

There were enough Swedes in London (mainly sailors) for a congregation to form in 1710 and the first church was set up in Wapping in 1728 (pictured), opened by and named for (the future queen) Ulrika Eleonora.  Emanuel Swedenborg lived nearby and attended this church.

The church in Harcourt Street was built in 1911 and the congregation moved taking everything they could. No alternative function for the empty church could be found and since it was rapidly deteriorating it was demolished, in 1921.

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This section lists the memorials where the subject on this page is commemorated:
Swedish Church

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Swedish Church - E1

This typeface, which you can see in the photo of the church interior, was sal...

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Swedish Church - W1

The referenced psalm includes some words that make it appropriate for travell...

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St Marys Newington

St Marys Newington

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1 memorial
St Katherine Coleman

St Katherine Coleman

The standard spelling of this Katherine seems to be with a 'K' not a 'C', and an 'e' in the middle, not an 'a'. Existed from at least 1346, rebuilt probably in the 15th century, survived the Great ...

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2 memorials
Maximilian Kolbe

Maximilian Kolbe

Saint in the Roman Catholic Church. Franciscan killed by the Nazis in 1941.

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Laurence Parnam

Laurence Parnam

Burnt at the stake in Bow (or possibly Stratford) for his Protestant beliefs.

Person, Execution, Religion

1 memorial
Reverend Ernest Arthur Blackwell Sanders, M.A.

Reverend Ernest Arthur Blackwell Sanders, M.A.

Vicar of St Marks, Dalston in 1898. As rector in Whitechapel he built the St Mary's Clergy House (still there, immediately south of this Whitechapel drinking fountain) in 1894–5, also with Herbert ...

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1 memorial