Road church

Road church is a network of churches in Denmark, Germany (German: Autobahnkirche), Estonia (Estonian: Teeliste kirikud), Finland (Finnish: tiekirkko, Swedish: vägkyrka), Norway (Norwegian: veikirke),Russia (Murmansk oblast) and Sweden (Swedish: vägkyrka). The churches are kept open for the tourist on the summer holiday season, generally the June, July and August months or shorter periods of time.

The only road church in the Czech Republic is the Chapel of Reconciliation (Czech: kaple Smíření), located at D5 motorway in west Bohemia near Pilsen, built in 2008.

The first road churches (Finnish: tiekirkko, Swedish: vägkyrka) were opened in Finland during the 1990s. In summer 2012 there are 280 road churches in Finland.

The first road church was opened in Germany in 1958. In 2012 there are 39 road churches or chapels. Some of them were built on purpose in a rest area, others are old village churches which happen to be situated near an access point. In liturgical terms, they range from ecumenical chapels with no formal rank up to fully consecrated Roman Catholic churches.

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