Lund Cathedral is a cathedral of the Lutheran Church of Sweden in Lund, Scania, Sweden.
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16 Facts About Lund Cathedral
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Lund Cathedral has been called "the most powerful representative of Romanesque architecture in the Nordic countries".
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Lund Cathedral was the site of the ceremony acknowledging the founding of Lund University in 1668.
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When it was built, Lund Cathedral was lavishly decorated with Romanesque stone sculptures.
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Lund Cathedral has six church organs, one of which is the largest in Sweden, and is used as a concert venue.
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However, when the first bishop of Lund Cathedral died, the erstwhile bishop of Dalby, Egino, was installed in Lund Cathedral and Dalby abandoned as the seat of a bishop.
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Lund Cathedral is one of the oldest stone buildings still in use in Sweden.
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Apart from the obscurity which thus surrounds the very beginning of the history of the cathedral, the construction of Lund Cathedral is probably among the most well documented among any Romanesque churches.
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Lund Cathedral wrote the first systematic art history of the cathedral.
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Lund Cathedral removed modern furnishings, re-built some of the buttresses and changed the stone of a large part of the facade.
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Lund Cathedral has been called "the most powerful representative of Romanesque architecture in the Nordic countries".
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Apart from its rich Romanesque decoration, Lund Cathedral contains several late medieval sculptures made by Adam van Duren, as mentioned above.
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The choir stalls in Lund Cathedral lent stylistic inspiration to the choir stalls in Roskilde Cathedral and St Bendt's Church, Ringsted.
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Lund Cathedral owns three High Gothic bronze columns carrying statuettes, the oldest remaining furnishings in the cathedral, and a seven-branched candelabrum from the end of the Middle Ages.
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Lund Cathedral has five choirs for adults and two choirs for children.
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