Kautokeino Church

Kautokeino Church
Kautokeino kirke
View of the church
Kautokeino Church
Location of the church
Kautokeino Church
Kautokeino Church (Norway)
69°00′12″N 23°02′44″E / 69.00333°N 23.04555°E / 69.00333; 23.04555Coordinates: 69°00′12″N 23°02′44″E / 69.00333°N 23.04555°E / 69.00333; 23.04555
Location Kautokeino, Finnmark
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status Parish church
Events Finn Bryn
Architecture
Functional status Active
Architectural type Long church
Completed 1958
Specifications
Capacity 300
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Kautokeino
Deanery Indre Finnmark prosti
Diocese Nord-Hålogaland

Kautokeino Church (Norwegian: Kautokeino kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Kautokeino Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Kautokeino. It is the main church for the Kautokeino parish which is part of the Indre Finnmark prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The red, wooden church was built in a long church style in 18 by the architect Finn Bryn. The church seats about 300 people.[1][2][3]

The church was built in 1965 to replace an older church that was burned down by the Germans near the end of World War II. The previous church building was built in 1701 and it was one of the oldest buildings in all of Finnmark when the Germans burned it down.[4]

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References

  1. ↑ "Kautokeino kirke" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
  2. ↑ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2018-05-22.
  3. ↑ Wenche Findal. "Finn Bryn". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved 2018-01-01.
  4. ↑ University of Tromsø. "Kautokeino kirke" (in Norwegian). Arkitekturguide Nord-Norge og Svalbard. Retrieved 2013-04-02.
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