Storkyrkobrinken

Storkyrkobrinken (Swedish: [ˈstûːrɕʏrkʊˌbrɪŋːkɛn]) is a street in Gamla stan, the old town in central Stockholm, Sweden.

Leading from Högvaktsterrassen ("Main Guard Terrace") near the Royal Palace down to Myntgatan and Riddarhustorget it forms a parallel street to Salviigränd and Stora Gråmunkegränd and is crossed by Trångsund, Prästgatan, and Västerlånggatan.

Since the Middle Ages, the street and various sections of it appears under different names referring to various activities and prominent buildings.

St Nicholas of Myra (-350), patron saint of merchants and seamen, had a statue in the street to which people would offer before shipping expeditions, and a chaplain in the 1670s explains both the church, the street, and city were named after the saint until the 1570s, notwithstanding the statue was destroyed earlier that century.

[1] Lastly it appears as Scholstugu gr[änd] ("School Cottage Alley") in 1733, before being named Storkyrko Brinken ("Big Church Slope") in 1771.