What happens when the world’s largest underground iron ore mine threatens to swallow the city? You definitely start with the old church, the centenary.
Sweden on Tuesday started two days of transferring one of its most famous woods, taking 113 old Kiruna Church to the center of a new city on the road about 5 kilometers (about 3 mi) below the road to allow the expansion of underground iron ore mines.
The 672 tonnes of Luthern Church, often voted for Sweden’s most beautiful building, raised on the convoy of remote-controlled flatbed trailers.
The church is expected to look at the church at a speed of half a kilometer in the presence of at least 10,000 people for this historic event in the city of 18,000 people.
King of Sweden Karl Xvi Gustaf will be among the attendees to see slow march of Church.
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This operation is part of the project for a decades, which is to move the Arctic city of Kiran after weakening the ground under its historical center.
The mine operator LKAB is financing the transfer of an estimated church of 500 million chronner (€ 45 million, $ 52 million), for which it was to obtain roads to accommodate the church.
Broadcaster SVT will make a slow moving spectacle live streamingCalling it “The Great Church Walk”, Sweden’s 2025 Eurovision Entry, with Cage, is performing for the crowd.
“The church is somehow Kirun’s soul, and somehow it is a safe place,” Wicker Leena Tajornberg of Kiruna told the Reuters News Agency. “For me, it’s like a day of happiness. But I think people feel very sad because we have to lead this place.”
Designed by Swedish architect Gustaf Vikman, 40 meters (131 ft) long structure includes designs inspired by indigenous people of the region on the puez.
Traditional deer migration routes obstruct
While the move has been observed as a wonderful feat of engineering, emotions are not the same for the Sami community, which has been in a deer deer there for thousands of years.
They warn that further expansion of the mine threatens the traditional migration routes of the animal and fears that it will affect the livelihood of indigenous shepherds in the region.
Around 3,000 houses and about 6,000 people would need to be transferred as part of transfer, LKAB said.
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