We’ve visited many a church and religious wonder during this trip, and the other day the turn came to the picturesque church of Kalix. Thanks goes to my cousin Åsa, who made it possible and really quite entertaining. Cheers!

The church sits next to the Kalix river – one of the last wild, unexploited rivers in Europe. It was probably founded some time in the 15^th century, but today’s stone structure was erected in the 1600s. Among the highlights were the 300 year-old priestly garbs and the medieval font (so old that it has Viking era imagery on it).

Åsa also told us that when she guides children around the church, she never mentions the all-seeing eye above the window until the very end of her tour, because the kids will worry and obsess over that eye for the rest of their stay. Funny.

Unfortunately we couldn’t pry open the church floor to view the mummy that rests beneath it – a young girl interred there in the early 1800s, also known as the ‘church bride’.

For me, it was an opportunity to see something familiar in a new light. Who knew that the old Kalix church was a pretty cool sight in its own right?

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