Täby Church is a medieval parish church in Täby kyrkby in Uppland, north of Stockholm. It was built in the second half of the thirteenth century as a square hall church. A vestry was added in the mid-fourteenth century and a porch in the mid-fifteenth century. In the second half of the fifteenth century the flat wooden ceiling was replaced with a vaulted ceiling.
The ceiling frescoes were painted by Albertus Pictor, who died in 1511, in the 1480s. They were never whitewashed over, unlike many of his other works. They include a man playing chess with Death, a scene that inspired Ingmar Bergman's film The Seventh Seal. A runestone is immured in the church porch.
The altarpiece dates from the 1470s, and the pulpit from the 1630s. The church and its frescoes were comprehensively restored in 1994. It is a parish church of the Church of Sweden.
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