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Swedish sailors donated ten ore a week until Copenhagen had a Swedish church. Svenska Gustafskyrkan at Folke Bernadottes Alle 4, on the Kastellet's old ground between Osterport and the harbour, began as a church boat - the Bethelskibet, moored in Nyhavn from 1901, where pastor Nils Widner first ministered to the thousands of Swedes working in the Danish capital. The Swedish Church Society formed in 1903 with a single mission: a proper church of their own, financed famously by members pledging te...