Grundtvigs Kirke is the building — Peder Vilhelm Jensen-Klint's expressionist brick church, started 1921 and finished by his son Kaare Klint in 1940. Six million bricks, an organ-pipe vertical facade unlike anything else, dedicated to the 19th-c Danish theologian and poet N.F.S. Grundtvig. Around it, the På Bjerget housing the same architects designed as a single 1920s workers' Gesamtkunstwerk.
Three kilometres on a small Bispebjerg hill, ninety minutes including the church. Bispebjerg S-tog (F-line) is the entry; walk north up Frederiksborgvej and the church silhouette appears within ten minutes — the vertical brick facade reading like a gigantic pipe organ from a distance.
The exterior is the first half of the visit. Walk the perimeter; the church's strict verticality reads differently from each side. Inside, the vertical bricks continue up the columns to the vaulted ceiling — vast, restrained, the lighting almost entirely from clerestory windows. Free entry; quiet most weekday afternoons.
På Bjerget (literally On the Mountain) is the housing around the church, laid out by Jensen-Klint to match the church's brick vocabulary. Bispebjerg Kirkegård sits south — wooded, residential in feel, the cemetery's quiet matching the church's.