Nordreisa Church

Nordreisa Church
Nordreisa kirke
View of the church (c. 1938)
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
Founded	1856
Consecrated	8 Oct 1856
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Christian Heinrich Grosch
Architectural type	Long church
Completed	1856(169 years ago) (1856)
Specifications
Capacity	350
Materials	Wood
Administration
Diocese	Nord-Hålogaland
Deanery	Nord-Troms prosti
Parish	Nordreisa
Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site
Type	Church
Status	Listed
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]}

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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See also

• List of churches in Nord-Hålogaland

References

1. "Nordreisa kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
2. "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
3. "Nordreisa kirke" (in Norwegian). Nordreisa sokn. Retrieved 21 February 2021.