Kokelv Church

Kokelv Church
Kokelv kirke

View of the church
Kokelv Church
Location in Finnmark
Coordinates: 70°36′39″N 24°39′06″E / 70.6107°N 24.6518°E / 70.6107; 24.6518
Location Kvalsund, Finnmark
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Rolf Harlew Jenssen
Completed 1960
Specifications
Capacity 120
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Kokelv
Deanery Hammerfest prosti
Diocese Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland

Kokelv Church (Norwegian: Kokelv kirke) is a parish church in Kvalsund Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Kokelv. The church is part of the Kokelv parish in the Hammerfest deanery in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The white wooden church was built in 1960 by a group of 24 German volunteers sponsored by Action Reconciliation Service for Peace (Aktion Sühnezeichen Friedensdienste, ASF), who spent seven months in Kokelv to build the church as a sign of reconciliation with the Norwegian people who had suffered under German occupation during World War II . The church it seats about 120 people.[1]

See also

References

  1. "Kokelv kirke" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-01-24.


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