The fascinating city relocation project in Kiruna, Sweden, reaches a new milestone as the iconic Kiruna Church is moved in ...

Sweden's 113-year-old Kiruna Church is being transported away from a location that is sinking due to underground mining.

Sweden has just completed a huge and historic task: moving the 113-year-old Kiruna Church to a new location. The 600-ton wooden church was slowly transported over two days, covering five kilometers of ...

The mammoth move has seen the wooden structure, weighing over 600 tons, transported on specialized trailers traveling at ...

The Swedish city of Kiruna, which is gradually shuffling itself 5km to the east to make way for an expanding iron ore mine, ...

The Kiruna Church and its belfry are being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as ...

The Kiruna Church – called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish – and its belfry are being moved this week along a three-mile route to a ...

Sweden is moving its 113-year-old Kiruna Church on wheels to escape a giant iron ore mine. A €45m feat of engineering, ...

Sweden’s Kiruna Church, a century-old landmark, will begin its two-day journey to a new site today. The move is part of a ...

The 113-year-old Kiruna Church, one of Sweden's largest wooden structures and often voted its most beautiful, had to move in order to make way for the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ...

The relocation of the 113-year-old church is part of a 30-year project to move about 3,000 homes in the city.

With funding from Sweden’s state-owned mining company — Luossavaara-Kiirunavaara AB, or LKAB — officials in Kiruna aim to create one of the most environmentally friendly cities in Europe.