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What does it take to move a century-old church down an Arctic road? | ABS-CBN News

Sweden's landmark Kiruna Church will begin a two-day trip to a new home on Tuesday (August 18), inching down an Arctic road to save its wooden walls from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ore mine. The project leader from mine-operator LKAB said he didn’t foresee any problems with the move. “We have investigated very carefully and we have calculated with all these beams that we have, so it will be no problem to move it,” said Stefan Holmblad Johansson. Workers have already jacked up the 600-ton, 113-year-old church from its foundations and hefted it onto a specially built trailer - part of a 30-year project to relocate thousands of people and buildings from the Lapland city. LKAB has spent the last year widening the road for the journey which will take the red-painted church - one of Sweden's largest wooden structures, often voted its most beautiful - 5km (3 miles) down a winding route to a brand new Kiruna city centre. The journey will save the church, but take it from the site where it has stood for more than a century. The church is just one small part of the relocation project. LKAB says around 3,000 homes and around 6,000 people need to move. A number of public and commercial buildings are being torn down while some, like the church, are being moved in one piece. (Production: Tom Little, Ilze Filks) For more ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below:    • ABS-CBN News   For more Breaking News & Live Coverage videos, click the link below:    • Breaking News & Live Coverage   For more latest news and analysis from ABS-CBN News videos, click the link below:    • The latest news and analysis from ABS-CBN ...   For more News Digital News Raw Cuts, click the link below:    • News Digital Raw Cuts OLD   Subscribe to the ABS-CBN News channel! - http://bit.ly/TheABSCBNNews Watch full episodes on iWantTFC for FREE here: http://iwanttfc.com Visit our website at http://news.abs-cbn.com Facebook:   / abscbnnews   Twitter:   / abscbnnews   Instagram:   / abscbnnews   #NewsDigital #LatestNews #ABSCBNNews