ColA historic wooden church in northern Sweden is being moved across the town of Kiruna to make way for the expansion of the world’s largest underground iron ore mine. The two-day operation is relocating the church about 3 miles to Kiruna’s new town centre, part of a decades long plan to shift the entire community. Mining beneath Kiruna by the state-owned company LKAB since 1910 has destabilized the ground, causing subsidence.
Tim Hall@kibcol1049 one of the worlds in Alastair Reynolds' Revelation Space novels has a cathedral on wheels that continually travels the planet's equator, so that it remains always underneath the planet's moon. And rival churches that are always trying to overtake or derail it.
But 3 miles is a good proof of concept.
* Edit: it wasn't on wheels, it was on lots of hydraulic legs, like a giant lumbering caterpillar. But wheels will do for version 1.
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