Cathedral of St Luke - Tomb of Frederik IX

In the funerary chapels, built on to the cathedral and entered from the aisles, are the tombs of more than 30 Danish monarchs, commencing with that of Margarethe I (d. 1412), who reigned over three Nordic countries - Denmark, Norway and Sweden. Frederik IX, who died in 1972, was also initially buried in a chapel, but in 1985 his coffin was transferred to a tomb specially built outside the cathedral. It is octagonal in shape and clad with hand-painted tiles, to the designs of the architects Inger and Johannes Exner and Vilhelm Wohlert.