Odensåker church
Odensåker

It is believed that the earliest church was built here in the 1100's, which was a building with a smaller altar, a vestibule to the south, and a half-round apse in the east. The church was lenghtened and the altar torn down and rebuilt in 1724-1728, and it became a hall church with a three-sided altar.

1758-1759, the church was once again rebuilt and extended, and it received its current looks.

During the two renovations and excavations in 1953-1954, the foundational walls were found to the earlier churches. 

Interior

If you step into the church you'll see a retable from 1770 made by Master Olof Wedholm from Råstad in Odensåker. He built the pulpit as well. The church's font is from the early Middle Ages, and the communion chalice is probably from around year 1400.

The altarpiece is a copy of the French 18th century painter Taraval's original, which hangs in the Brotherhood's Widow House Chapel in Stockholm.

The organ was rebuilt 1953 by the danish organ maker F. Aagaard, but the original was built in the beginning of the century by C.A. Härngren's Organ Construction in Lidköping.

The large organ clock is from the Middle Ages but the small clock was recast in the year 1749.

In the vestibule, you can see burial mounds for Vicar Dyrander and Captain-Lieutenant Krull. There's also walled graves under the church floor, so it is possible that it is their remains that rest here. Outside of the sacristy's eastern wall, Provost Kyllenius and his wife lies buried and it is their portrait you can see in the sacristy, painted in oil on copper plate.