Skogskyrkogården
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How it came to be
In 1912 Stockholm City Council acquired old gravel pits overgrown with pine at Enskede, south of the city, for a new cemetery. An international competition in 1915 was won by "Tallum", the entry of two Swedish architects of about 30, Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz.
Work began in 1917, and the cemetery and its Woodland Chapel were consecrated in 1920. Lewerentz's classical Resurrection Chapel followed in 1925, and Asplund built the Woodland Crematorium with its chapels of Faith, Hope and the Holy Cross. It was his last work; it opened shortly before his death in 1940, and he is buried in the cemetery.
Unlike most cemeteries of its time, which resembled well-ordered English parks, it drew on ancient and medieval Nordic burial archetypes and used the natural landscape of the pine forest, and it had a profound influence on cemetery design around the world. The cemetery, about 108 hectares, was inscribed in 1994.
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