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Historic Swedish church arrives at new home after two-day journey / 722D4T3
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A crowd gathers to watch as Kiruna's landmark church arrives at its new location after a two-day journey across the Swedish Arctic town. Weighing 672 tonnes, the Kiruna Kyrka was placed on supportive beams and rolled five kilometres across town as part of a nearly two-decade project to relocate all of Kiruna's town centre to allow for the expansion of Europe's biggest underground mine. "I felt some sadness yesterday when I saw the church moving," says Lena Tjarnberg, the Kiruna Kyrka's vicar, who is "happy and relieved" to see the building arrive at its new home. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES