Ilen Church

Ilen Church
Ilen kirke / Ila kirke

View of the church
Ilen Church
Location in Sør-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 63°25′48″N 10°22′35″E / 63.4299°N 10.3763°E / 63.4299; 10.3763
Location Trondheim, Sør-Trøndelag
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Consecrated 7 June 1889
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Eugene Sissenére
Style Neo-Gothic
Completed 1889
Specifications
Capacity 900
Materials Stone
Administration
Parish Ilen
Deanery Byåsen
Diocese Diocese of Nidaros

Ilen Church (Norwegian: Ilen kirke, also called Ila Church) is a parish church in the municipality of Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the Ila area in the city of Trondheim, on the 250-metre (820 ft) wide isthmus between the river Nidelva and the Trondheimsfjord.[1]

The stone church was built in 1889 by the architect Eugene Sissenére, and it was consecrated on 7 June 1889. It does not have its own graveyard on the church site. The church is part of the Ilen parish in the Byåsen deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros.[2]

See also

References

  1. Ilen menighet. "Ilen kirke" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2011-03-31.
  2. NRK. "Ilen kirke i Trondheim" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2011-03-31.


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