Ansgar's Church
church building in Jönköping, Sweden
The Ansgar's Church (Swedish: Ansgariikyrkan) was a church building in Vättersnäs in Jönköping, Sweden. It belonged to Mission Covenant Church of Sweden, which in October 2012 joined the Uniting Church in Sweden.
It was inaugurated on 17 October 1965. On the night before Tuesday, 3 August 2021, the church was destroyed by a fire.
According to a police report published on 12 August the same year, the fire was caused following a lightning strike. This conclusion has later been questioned, as no thunder was recorded by the SMHI, and because of witnesses of firework explosions.
The public source identifies “Ansgar's Church” as church building in Jönköping, Sweden. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ansgar's, Church and church.
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The strongest evidence will usually combine a dated visual record with documents produced by the authority responsible for the place. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17518534. Authority coordinates are 57.788, 14.238. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2012, 1965 and 2021.
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This entry incorporates text from “Ansgar's Church” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.