Abbey of Black Friars in Stockholm, Stockholms län

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On City Island (Stadsholmen) around which Stockholm, the capital of Sweden has grown since the 13th century (here seen from the east), the Abbey of the Black Friars took up most of the southern part of the little isle. The church and center were along the southeast coast (nearest here). The huge square building on the right is the Royal palace completed in 1754, which replaced the over 400-year-old Three Crowns Castle after it burned down in 1697. Of the abbey itself, there is an old drawing from the early 16th century (second picture), before this Dominican convent was discontinued in the 1530's and subsequently torn down. It was the youngest of the three large cloisters that had been organized in Stockholm as early as the 13th century and, like the others, went 'out of business' when King Gustav I Vasa closed all the Roman Church's outlets in Sweden, during his drastic conversion of the state religion to Lutheranism. An old iron door at the little street S. Benickebrinken, leading to restored cellar rooms, is all there is left of the abbey today in the visible architecture of a city of one million residents. The many burials that took place at the Black Frairs' are concealed under the narrow, winding streets and close old buildings in the Old Town of City Island, which is all there was to original Stockholm.