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Mörby centrum

building in Danderyd Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ1958076 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mörby centrum is a shopping mall in the municipality of Danderyd north of Stockholm. It is also the name of a station of the Stockholm Metro accessed from the shopping mall. Mörby Centrum was built in 1961 by the architects Fors & Son and has since then been expanded in several steps. It was converted into an indoor shopping mall in 1977.

In May 2026 it was announced Mörby Centrum would change its name to Danderyds Centrum.

Editorial summary

“Mörby centrum” enters the record as building in Danderyd Municipality, Stockholm County, Sweden. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mörby, centrum and building can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1977, 2026—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mörby, centrum and building.
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Why this record matters

“Mörby centrum” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mörby, centrum and building provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1958076. Authority coordinates are 59.398, 18.037. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1977 and 2026.

Critical limits

Modern boundaries and familiar names can conceal earlier jurisdictions or structures that do not align with the present site. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

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  2. Expand the search: follow Mörby centrum primary sources, Mörby centrum archive and Mörby research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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  3. Which earlier names or jurisdictions may reveal additional records?
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This entry incorporates text from “Mörby centrum” 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.