Nordreisa Church
| Nordreisa Church | |
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| Nordreisa kirke | |
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View of the church, c. 1938 | |
  Nordreisa Church Location in Troms | |
| Coordinates: 69°46′11″N 21°01′59″E / 69.7696°N 21.0331°E | |
| Location | Nordreisa, Troms |
| Country | Norway |
| Denomination | Church of Norway |
| Churchmanship | Evangelical Lutheran |
| History | |
| Consecrated | 8 Oct 1856 |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architect(s) | Christian Heinrich Grosch |
| Completed | 1856 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 350 |
| Materials | Wood |
| Administration | |
| Parish | Nordreisa |
| Deanery | Nord-Troms prosti |
| Diocese | Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland |
Nordreisa Church (Norwegian: Nordreisa kirke) is a parish church in the municipality of Nordreisa in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the village of Storslett. The church is part of the Nordreisa parish in the Nord-Troms deanery in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The white wooden church seats about 350 people. It was built in 1856 by the architect Christian Heinrich Grosch, and it was consecrated on 8 October 1856 by the Bishop Knud Gislesen.[1]
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. Fortunately, the church was spared during the burning of Finnmark and Northern Troms by the retreating German Army in 1945. Much of the church inventory disappeared during this period, but a few years after the war they found baptismal bowl from 1856 in a pile of horse manure.[2]
See also
References
- ↑ "Nordreisa kirke" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
- ↑ "Nordreisa kirke" (in Norwegian). Nordreisa sokn. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
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