Nordreisa Church

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Nordreisa Church
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Nordreisa Church
69°46′11″N21°02′00″E / 69.769623°N 21.033357°E / 69.769623; 21.033357
Location Nordreisa, Troms
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status Parish church
Founded1856
Consecrated 8 Oct 1856
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Architect(s) Christian Heinrich Grosch
Architectural type Long church
Completed1856(168 years ago) (1856)
Specifications
Capacity350
Materials Wood
Administration
Diocese Nord-Hålogaland
Deanery Nord-Troms prosti
Parish Nordreisa
TypeChurch
StatusListed
ID 85163

Nordreisa Church (Norwegian : Nordreisa kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Nordreisa Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the village of Storslett. It is one of the two churches for the Nordreisa parish which is part of the Nord-Troms prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1856 using plans drawn up by the architect Christian Heinrich Grosch. The church seats about 350 people. [1] [2]

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History

Construction was approved for the church around 1850 and the architect Christian Heinrich Grosch sent the architectural drawings to the parish leaders on 9 August 1852 for the new church. The building was consecrated on 8 October 1856 by the Bishop Knud Gislesen. During the last winter of World War II (1944–1945), the church was used as a residence for German soldiers, and the service building nearby was used as a horse stable. The church was spared during the burning of Finnmark and Northern Troms by the retreating German Army in 1945, but much of the church inventory disappeared during this period. A few years after the war a baptismal bowl from 1856 was found in a pile of horse manure. It was cleaned up and returned to the church. [3]

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References

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