Isaiah Church

Isaiah Church
Isaiah Church
Coordinates: 55°41′32.51″N 12°34′42″E / 55.6923639°N 12.57833°E / 55.6923639; 12.57833
Location	14 Malmøgade Nørrebro, Copenhagen
Country	Denmark
Denomination	Protestant
Architecture
Status	Church
Architect(s)	Thorvald Jørgensen
Architectural type	Church
Style	Historicist
Groundbreaking	1903
Completed	1912
Specifications
Materials	Brick
Administration
Diocese	Diocese of Copenhagen

Isaiah Church (Danish: Esajas Kirke) is a Lutheran church in the Østerbro district of Copenhagen, Denmark.

History

The Isaiah Church is located in Østervold Parish which was disjoined from St. James' Parish in 1903. Thorvald Jørgensen who had already designed several churches in Copenhagen was charged with the design and the church was consecrated in 1912.^[1]

Architecture

The cruciform church is designed in Late Romanesque Revival style. It is built in red brick with granite ashlar masonry along the ground and on the corners. The central tower is topped by a pyramidal spire and the western cross arm ends in two smaller towers which also have pyramidal spires. To the east the church ends in a small three-sided apsis.^[2]

The main entrance below the two western towers is decorated with a granite portal flanked by two angels designed by Anders Bundgaard. Above the main entrance there is a gallery of five round-arched windows separated by granite columns.^[2]

Interior

The nave is divided into three by columns in masonry with limestone capitals. The central nave and choir arms are barrel vaulted and the lateral naves are groin vaulted.^[2]

Behind the altar, in the small apsis, there are three glass paintings made by Joakim Skovgaard in 1914.

References

↑ "Esajas Kirke". Esajas Kirke. Retrieved 2011-02-16.
1 2 3 "Esajas kirke". nordenskirker.dk. Retrieved 2011-02-15.

External links

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Official website

Churches in Copenhagen, Denmark

City Centre	St. Alban's Alexander Nevsky Church St. Andrew's St. Ansgar's Christian's Church Christiansborg Chapel Frederik's Church Garrison Church Church of Holmen Holy Ghost Jerusalem Church Our Lady St. Paul's St. Peter's Reformed Church Trinitatis Church

Amager	Dragør Church Hans Tausen's Church Nathanael's Church Philip's Church St. Anne's Church Simon Peter's Church Store Magleby Church Sundby Church

Bispebjerg	Grundtvig's Church

Brønshøj-Husum

Frederiksberg	Frederiksberg Church Frederiksberg Palace Chapel Godthaab Church Immanuel Church Mariendal Church Solbjerg Church St. Luke's St. Mark's St. Thomas'

Nørrebro	Anna Church Bethlehem Church Brorson's Church St. John's St. Stephen's

Valby	Jesus Church

Vesterbro/Kgs. Enghave	Church of Christ Elijah's Church St. Mathew's

Østerbro	Church of the Free Port Gustaf Church Isaiah Church Kildevæld Church St. Augustine's Church St. James's Zion's Church

Surroundings	Bagsværd Church Roskilde Cathedral

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