Medieval chapel in Luleå : Analysis of medieval chapel in the Luleå area.

This essay is based on previous discussions regarding early church buildnings in the Luleå area. The study is limited to two possible premises. The first location is the site of the current stone church in Gammelstad. The reason for the choise of the stone church is that some archaeological researchers consider it probable that the first church buildning may have been on that site before the stone church was built. The other site is located in Heden outside Boden and is described in older sources as a place for an old church building. To answer the essay´s questions I used Kulturhistoriskt lexikon för nordisk medeltid and Mats Anglert´s divisions of chapel to test that information agaionst the information available about the described chapel, previous research and premises and made a theoretical reasoning about it. In this essay I argue for the possibility that there are two chapels which is mentioned in the old sources. The chapel in Svenald´s will is probably a colonization chapel that was built on the site where Nederluleå church stands today, while the chapel mentioned in the other sources can be considered a capelle non curate, a chapel outside a parich community and without a priest, that was built in Heden.