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Rating: 5 | Votes: 1 | Date: 02/07/2026 23:44:00

Halfway along Stroget, where the shopping crowds thin for a moment at Amagertorv, stands one of Copenhagen's oldest institutions. Helligaandskirken - the Church of the Holy Ghost - traces its story to 1296, when Bishop Johannes Krag of Roskilde founded a House of the Holy Ghost here as part of a settlement with the city's rebellious population: a refuge that cared for the sick, the poor and the old. In 1469 Christian I raised the hospital to an abbey, and Pope Sixtus IV confirmed it under the O...