Lund Dom Kyrka="Lund's City Church"

 The Lund “Dom Kyrka” (Dom Kyrka=Dome Church) this is one of the oldest Cathedrals’ in Sweden. It was built in 1145. It is huge and beautiful. Neal is standing a block away so we could get the “Kyrka” in the photo.

                         Also here is the side and the back of the church.




 

 Inside is a beautiful clock. It keeps accurate time. It is a 14th-century astronomical clock. It is set mechanically to keep track of 100 years.









It was built many years after the church. Every day at noon the figures at the top of the clock goes through a musical movement where the Wiseman on each side come out to pay honor to the Christ Child. We have watched it several times.
 
 

The Church has a lot of “folklores” about it.

It is said that the Priest wanted to build a beautiful church but he didn’t have a lot of money. He looked for someone to help him. A brick mason told him he would build a beautiful church for him and he would not charge him any money. But there was a catch; when the church was completed he would have to give up his eyes. The Priest thought about it and said that the Lord had given him everything so to honor him back he would give up his eyes to build the church. The brick mason said “if you can guess my name before the last brick is laid then I will not take your eyes.” So every day the priest would call out names and it was never the right name. The builder told him that he would be finished in one day. The Priest decided to take a walk and look at everything he could, in hopes that he would be able to remember all that that he saw. As he was walking he saw a mother pushing her baby in a buggy and he stopped a ways off so he could remember what they looked like. Well he heard her say to her son, “Don’t worry, papa "Finns" will be putting the last brick on the cathedral tomorrow and then he will be able to be at home with us! So the priest ran to the cathedral and called out "Finns". The brick layer responded then realized the priest had called his name. So now he had worked for nothing. He became so mad that he went to the basement of the cathedral and grabbed one of the support pillars and tried to pull down the cathedral. Well as the story goes he was turned to stone attached to the pillar!! When we went to the basement sure enough there was a pillar with a “stone man” attached to it!!!






This is an Old Danish Kyrka (Church). All of the Danish Churches have the same front design. They look like stair steps. They are all over Sweden. In the old days the Danes had conquered the southern part of Sweden. They had built many churches and Danish buildings. Then in about 1658 Sweden took it back so they still have all the Danish buildings.






 

This is a Torg, pronounced Tory. It is like a big town square. In this one, venders will come and sell produce, fish, flowers, clothing etc. All around the Torg are cute stores and cute cobblestone side streets.

 



Here is Neal buying Torsk (Cod fish).  It was delicious, fresh and cheaper than in the stores.