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April 4: Skogskyrkogården 2

It's a huge place.

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The Chapel of the Resurrection.

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The gap between the portico and the building shows that they are slightly misaligned.

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The long axis back toward the Holy Cross chapel.

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There are a lot of these interesting changes in level in the woodland parts of the cemetery.

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The back side of the chapel.

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All the chapels were closed, it turned out. This was all we could see inside the Chapel of the Resurrection.

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Water-catch stones.

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A detail from the waiting building (that's a clumsy term, but I'm not sure what a more accurate one would be) across the yard from the chapel.

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The waiting building is semicircular.

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Here's the back side of it.

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On the way back north, looking back toward the Chapel of the Resurrection.

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That's a rather taller hedge than I'd ever seen before, I do believe.

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Moving along toward Almhöjden.

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Back across toward the Holy Cross chapel.

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Almhöjden.

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It's one of the subtlest prospect/refuges I've seen; the feeling of refuge is only suggested by the low walls.

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The crematorium by the Holy Cross chapel, and the columbaria.

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The steps down from Almhöjden on the other side.

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And from the hill across. Their steepness grows as one descends.

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Looking back to the entrance from the same hill.

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Rodential tunnels on the side of the hill.

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Back at the metro station.

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The train's decoration was good for snapping one out of a cemeterial mindset.