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Bjärka-Säby Castle

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Bjärka-Säby Castle

Bjärka-Säby Castle (Nya slottet Bjärka-Säby) is a baroque style château located south of Linköping, in Östergötland County, Sweden. In Bjärka-Säby there are actually two castles simply called the old and the new castle of Bjärka-Säby. The old castle dates from 1632. The new castle is owned by the Pentecostal Church Out of the castle's common life, meetings and retreats an ecumenical community has been born, though not a monastery as stated in some articles.[2] This community, Ekumeniska Kommuniteten i Bjärka-Säby (EKiBS), is a community with its members living scattered around Sweden and the other Scandinavian countries but having its main gatherings and heart at the castle of Bjärka-Säby.

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