Hallgrimskirkja
Concrete church modeled on basalt columns, its towering steeple visible across the capital skyline.
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This guide to Hallgrimskirkja in Reykjavik follows the decades it took to raise Iceland's landmark church, from architect Gudjon Samuelsson winning the commission in 1937 through a crypt consecrated in 1948 and a nave not finished until 1986. Along the way you'll hear about the German workshop that built its towering organ, and the workers who spent years, sometimes their whole careers, climbing the scaffolding. Listen for how long it really took between groundbreaking and the building's completion.
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