A 113-year-old wooden church in Sweden successfully reached holy ground after a dramatic two-day trek.
Incredible photos of the slow-going house of worship, jacked up and placed atop a specially built trailer, were shared across the world on Monday , as the house of worship began its pilgrimage.
The beloved church underwent the feat of engineering in order to avoid a Biblical fate — getting swallowed up by the ground below. 8
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The two-day spectacle saw the red-painted Kiruna Church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, inch its way to a new home.
Kiruna Church progressed along the 3-mile route at glacial pace of 0.31 and 0.93 miles per hour — with two brief breaks for a traditional Swedish afternoon coffee, according to the Associated Press.
Thousands of spectators braved the c