Nordreisa Church

Nordreisa Church
Nordreisa kirke
View of the church, c. 1938
Nordreisa Church
Location in Troms
Nordreisa Church
Nordreisa Church (Norway)
Coordinates: 69°46′11″N 21°01′59″E / 69.7696°N 21.0331°E / 69.7696; 21.0331
Location Nordreisa, Troms
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status Parish church
Consecrated 8 Oct 1856
Architecture
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Christian Heinrich Grosch
Architectural type Long church
Completed 1856
Specifications
Capacity 350
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Nordreisa
Deanery Nord-Troms prosti
Diocese Nord-Hålogaland

Nordreisa Church (Norwegian: Nordreisa kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Nordreisa Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the village of Storslett. It is the church for the Nordreisa parish which is part of the Nord-Troms prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1856 by the architect Christian Heinrich Grosch. The church seats about 350 people. The building was consecrated on 8 October 1856 by the Bishop Knud Gislesen.[1][2]

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. 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.[3]

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References

  1. "Nordreisa kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
  2. "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2018-07-14.
  3. "Nordreisa kirke" (in Norwegian). Nordreisa sokn. Retrieved 2012-12-21.
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