New Sweden Chapel is a mid-nineteenth century Lutheran church and pioneer cemetery located 3 miles (5 km) northwest of Lockridge, Iowa, in the United States. The New Sweden Church is the oldest parent church of the Swedish Augustana Synod. New Sweden is the first permanent settlement of Swedes in the United States of America. Another wood frame church with a cemetery, the New Sweden Methodist located 0.3 miles (0.5 km) west of the Lutheran Church on 195th Street, burned down after a lighting strike in 2010, and was replaced by a new building. - AsNotedIn