Frosta Church

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Frosta kirke

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Frosta Church
Frosta Church (Norway)
63°35′14″N10°45′14″E / 63.5872°N 10.7540°E / 63.5872; 10.7540 Coordinates: 63°35′14″N10°45′14″E / 63.5872°N 10.7540°E / 63.5872; 10.7540
Location Frosta, Trøndelag
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Georg Andreas Bull
Architectural type Cruciform
Completed 1866
Specifications
Capacity 800
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Frosta
Deanery Sør-Innherad prosti
Diocese Nidaros

Frosta Church (Norwegian : Frosta kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Frosta municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Frosta. It is the church for the Frosta parish which is part of the Sør-Innherad prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros. The white, wooden church was built in a cruciform style in 1866 by the architect Georg Andreas Bull. The church seats about 800 people. The building was restored on the occasion of its 100th anniversary during 1966. [1] [2] [3] [4]

Norwegian language North Germanic language spoken in Norway

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Church of Norway Evangelical-Lutheran denomination in Norway

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  1. ↑ "Frosta kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  2. ↑ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2018-03-30.
  3. ↑ Rosvold, Knut A., ed. (2018-02-08). "Frosta kirke". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget . Retrieved 2018-03-30.
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