St Alban's Church
Gothic Revival parish church of flint and limestone, built beside a military citadel for the English expatriate community.
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This guide to St Alban's Church in Copenhagen traces how a small, homesick English congregation ended up with royalty from across Europe at its opening in 1887. It follows Princess Alexandra of Denmark, who left for England in 1863 and later took up her countrymen's cause, pressing Denmark's Ministry of War for a plot beside the ramparts of Kastellet and hiring a fashionable London architect to build it. Stand outside and you're looking at flint, limestone and Swedish stone shaped into an English parish church.
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