As It Happens Thousands watch historic Swedish church roll extremely slowly to its new home

Clara Nyström was deeply moved when she saw her town's beloved wooden church appear over the horizon, glimmering in the sun as it moved ever-so-slowly towards its new home.

This week, the historic church in Kiruna, Sweden's northernmost town, was slowly moved on wheels to a location five kilometres away.

The two-day, live-streamed event — dubbed "The Great Church Move" — drew thousands of onlookers, and marks a major milestone in the town's years-long process to fully relocate to avoid getting swallowed up by an underground mine whose expansion has altered the land's foundation.

"I saw the church, and the sun was shining towards the church, and it's so beautiful," Nyström, Kiruna's munic

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