Viborg - Church of the Southern Parish

(Local Name: Søndre Sogns Kirke) To the south of the cathedralin Viborg stands the Søndre Sogns Kirke (Church of the Southern Parish), originally belonging to a Dominican monastery and dating from 1227; it was destroyed by fire in 1726 and then rebuilt. The choir and nave of the old church survive. The church has a magnificent carved and gilded Flemish Gothic altar of 1520, which originally stood in the church of Christiansborg Palace in Copenhagen but was presented to the Sondersogn church by Frederik IV.