A funeral in a free church
A free church is a Christian faith community where membership rests on free choice. The free church movement is a large Swedish popular movement with deep roots in Småland.
What usually happens at the ceremony?
At a funeral in a free church, each denomination follows its own order of service.
A church funeral can also be held in a free church’s own premises for its members.
What is useful to know?
- Adventistsamfundet, the Seventh-day Adventist Church
- Evangeliska Frikyrkan, the Evangelical Free Church
- Frälsningsarmén, the Salvation Army
- Metodistkyrkan, the Methodist Church
- Pingst, Fria församlingar i samverkan
- Svenska Alliansmissionen
- Svenska Baptistsamfundet, the Swedish Baptist Union
- Svenska Missionskyrkan
- Vineyard Norden
The churches listed above are members of Sveriges Frikyrkosamråd, the Swedish Free Church Council. Tell us which one you belong to and we will get in touch with them.
What do we help with?
We handle the contact with the congregation and coordinate the venue, the timing and the music according to their own order of service.
The content of the ceremony belongs to the family and the congregation. We make sure that everything around it is in place in time: collection and transport, day or night, coffin and urn, contact with the cemetery authority, the death notice and the online memorial, and all the paperwork for the authorities.
What does it cost?
The same price list applies whatever the tradition. See what a funeral costs, or call us and we will work out the figures for your situation.
Where can we read more?
Sveriges Begravningsbyråers Förbund, the Swedish Funeral Directors Association, describes this form of funeral at begravningar.se.
We arrange funerals according to several different traditions.