Road church

A road church is a roadside church, one of a network of such churches in Denmark (Danish: vejkirke), Germany (German: Autobahnkirche, open all year), Estonia (Estonian: Teeliste kirikud), Finland (Finnish: tiekirkko, Swedish: vägkyrka), Norway (Norwegian: veikirke),[1] Russia (Murmansk oblast) and Sweden (Swedish: vägkyrka).

The only road church in the Czech Republic is the Chapel of Reconciliation (Czech: kaple Smíření), located on the D5 motorway in west Bohemia near Plzeň, built in 2008.

[2] The first road churches (Finnish: tiekirkko, Swedish: vägkyrka) were opened in Finland during the 1990s.

[4] Some of them were built on purpose in a rest area, others are old village churches which happen to be situated near an access point.

In liturgical terms, they range from ecumenical chapels with no formal rank up to fully consecrated Roman Catholic churches.

A German traffic sign for a road church
Chapel of Reconciliation near Plzeň in the Czech Republic
A German traffic sign for a road church
Autobahnkirche Baden-Baden
Autobahnkirche Burkau -Uhyst am Taucher
Emmauskapelle , Singen
The church of San Giovanni Battista near Florence, Italy.
A sign for a road church in Sweden