Sildpollnes Church

Sildpollnes Church
Sildpollnes kirke
View of the church
Sildpollnes Church
Location in Nordland
Sildpollnes Church
Sildpollnes Church (Norway)
Coordinates: 68°19′20″N 14°43′12″E / 68.322322°N 14.720042°E / 68.322322; 14.720042
Location Vågan, Nordland
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status Parish church
Architecture
Functional status Active
Completed 1891
Specifications
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Svolvær
Deanery Lofoten prosti
Diocese Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland

Sildpollnes Church (Norwegian: Sildpollnes kirke) is a parish church in the municipality of Vågan in Nordland county, Norway. It is located on the Sildpollneset peninsula on the island of Austvågøya. The church is part of the Svolvær parish in the Lofoten deanery in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. The white wooden church was built in 1891 as a bedehus and in 1961 its status was upgraded to a chapel. The church is a very popular tourist location due to its location on a peninsula in the middle of a fjord with mountains in the background. It is located very close to European route E10, so it is easy to get to and photograph it.[1]

But the church is (at least in 2017) not freely accessible as the only way leads over private property.[2] So it usually can only be looked at from a distance.

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Sildpollnes kapell" (in Norwegian). Vågan kirkelige fellesråd. Retrieved 2012-07-21.
  2. ↑ "Lofotposten - Advokat mener kommunen har veirett til Sildpollnes kapell". www.lofotposten.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2017-05-11.


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