The English park came to Sweden primarily through architect Fredrik Magnus Piper, who, on behalf of Gustav III, traveled to England in the 1770s to study the new type of landscape gardens. Through Piper’s garden designs at Drottningholm and Haga, the English garden ideal spread in Sweden.
The English park in Åkers styckebruk began to be established in the 1780s. In 1798, architect Carl Christoffer Gjörwell was commissioned by Joachim Daniel Wahrendorff, who purchased Åkers styckebruk in 1772, to make designs for installations in “the existing English park.” One of these installations was the temple that Wahrendorff’s wife, Maria Juliana, built as a surprise for her husband.