Churches

St Mark’s Church was built according to drawings by Rolf Bergh and was inaugurated in 1975. It had a facade of raw concrete with impressions of the boards as the casting mould. Built together with the church was a parish hall and a tall belfry.

As the building was in great need of renovation, it was closed in late summer 2015 and the church council decided in 2017 that it should be sold.  The building was purchased by Skövde Municipality in 2018 and demolished the following year.

The photographs show the church as completed, with sixteen 4.5m high windows, made at Bogtman’s Glassworks, Haarlem. The motif of the windows is of the wheat and the grape for the bread and wine, that meet together behind the altar. The wheat plant of the first seedling to harvest and to bread are to the right, to the left one follows the vines and the grapes to the wine.

Folke wrote at the time “One shouldn’t only see the symbolic in these windows, but rather be inspired towards a strong and fruitful state of being”. It was an enormous task, taking almost a year to complete. 

The windows were however obscured by the positioning of strengthening verticals in the window spacings after they had been installed, much to disappointment of Folke.