Teda Church

Enköping, Sweden

Teda Church was originally built around the year 1200 and enlarged strongly about 100 years later. The star-shape vaulting was made in the 1500s. The mural paintings were made in two phases in the early 1600s. The chapel was addded in 1680s for Arvid Ivarsson Natt och Dag.

The oldest item in the church is a font made in the Middle Ages. There is a date 1644 carved to the pulpit. The organs and benches date from the 18th century.

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502, Enköping, Sweden
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Founded: ca. 1200
Category: Religious sites in Sweden
Historical period: Consolidation (Sweden)

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