Alla Helgons Dag (All Saints' Day in Sweden)

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All Saints Day is a quiet holiday rather than a day of celebration, as its origins are about remembering the dead. We've collected some locations in Sweden's three largest cities where you can mark the holiday.

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Many people in Sweden use All Saints Day – which falls on November 5th this year – to visit family members’ or friends’ graves, care for the burial site, and bring extra decorations such as wreaths and, in particular, candles.



A fairly recent way of marking All Saints in Sweden is to light candles and place them on relatives’ graves. Make sure that if you do visit a graveyard to take in the atmosphere this weekend that you keep mourners in mind and show respect both to the graves and to those visiting to pay their respects.



Stockholm

The biggest Alla helgons dag commemorations in the country take place at Stockholm’s Woodland Cemetery, Skogskyrkogården. As always, it’s free to enter this Unesco World Heritage Site, which takes on a special atmosphere as thousands of people visit to pay their respects to the dead, with lanterns lighting the way. If you don’t feel comfortable visiting a graveyard or you want to use the holiday to pay respects to loved ones who are buried outside of Sweden, you may want to visit a church instead.



For those in Stockholm, the Storkyrkan Cathedral will be holding a Musik för Alla helgons dag (Music for All Saints) concert on Saturday November 5th between 2pm and 3pm, featuring music by Franz Schubert, Arvo Pärt and Alfred Schnittke. Filip Graden will be playing the cello and Matilda Lindholm the piano.

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