Gustav Adolf Scandinavian Church
Red-brick seamen's church of stepped gables and an octagonal lantern, inspired by Nordic stave churches.
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This guide to the Gustav Adolf Scandinavian Church in Liverpool follows the stew that gave the city's people their nickname, and the Norwegian, Swedish and Danish sailors who knew it by other names. It reaches back to the eighteen eighties, when tens of thousands of Scandinavian seamen and emigrants passed through the port and a consul's son designed his very first church for them. Best heard on Park Lane, looking up at the stepped gables and the lead-covered spire.
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