Saint Ansgar chapel in Birka

The Ansgar Chapel was built in 1930, 1100 years after the monk Ansgars arrived in Sweden. The chapel was designed by architect Lars Israel Wahlman and decorated with paintings and sculptures representing Ansgar’s life and commandments. Saint Ansgar was born in 801 in a Frankish family in Amiens (today in France). In 822, he was sent as a missionary to christianize "northern lands". In 830, he pent 6 months in Birka where he organised a small congregation. He will return to Birka for two years in 848-850 and in 854. He is famous to the extent that even a crater on the moon is named after him, the Ansgarius crater!