Kiruna Church, known as Kiruna Kyrka, reached its new home on Wednesday afternoon. The wooden church was moved five kilometres to the town’s new centre as part of a relocation plan. The move was needed because the world’s largest underground iron-ore mine threatens to swallow parts of the town.

How do you move one of Sweden’s most beloved wooden churches down the road? The Kiruna Church — called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish — is being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east as part of the town’s relocation.

The mammoth move has seen the wooden structure, weighing over 600 tons, transported on specialized trailers traveling at about 1,600 feet per hour.

Sweden's 113-year-old Kiruna Church is being transported away from a location that is sinking due to underground mining.

A historic church in Kiruna, Sweden, is making a 3-mile journey to a new part of the city to escape the encroaching threat o

Sweden's King Carl XVI Gustaf speaks to media next to the Kiruna Church, a Sami style wooden Swedish Lutheran church, called Kiruna Kyrka in Swedish, in Kiruna, Sweden, Wednesday, Aug.

The Kiruna Church and its belfry are being moved this week along a 5-kilometer (3-mile) route east to a new city center as part of the town’s relocation.

Watch live as an entire church in Sweden continues its move to its new home on Wednesday, 20 August. Kiruna Church is being relocated to save it from ground subsidence and the expansion of the world's largest underground iron ore mine.

Mining in Kiruna, Sweden, has jeopardized the ground below a beloved church. Thanks to a feat of engineering, it is on the move.