Woodland Cemetery (Skogskyrkogården), Stockholm

Visit duration: 1 hr 30 min Editorial visit time estimate

Reviewed by Elena Voss · Roavina Travel Editor

About Woodland Cemetery (Skogskyrkogården)

Skogskyrkogården, the Woodland Cemetery, lies in the Gamla Enskede district south of central Stockholm. It grew out of an international competition in 1915, won by the young architects Gunnar Asplund and Sigurd Lewerentz with their entry "Tallum". Work began in 1917 on old gravel quarries overgrown with pine trees, and the cemetery was inaugurated in 1920. Its design traces the development of architecture from Nordic Classicism to mature functionalism, and it was inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1994.

Checked 2026-11-10 · Source

What's inside

From the colonnaded entrance a long route splits in two. One way leads through a pastoral landscape with a large pond and a tree-lined meditation hill; the other climbs to a large detached granite cross and the abstract portico of the crematorium with the chapels of the Holy Cross, Faith and Hope. The paths rejoin on the dead-straight Way of Seven Wells through tall pines, leading to Lewerentz's Resurrection Chapel. Asplund also designed the Woodland Chapel, and Greta Garbo's gravestone is here.

Checked 2026-11-10 · Source