Valle Church (Aust-Agder)

Valle Church
Valle kyrkje
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Valle Church
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Valle Church
Valle Church (Norway)
59°12′35″N 7°32′04″E / 59.2096°N 07.5345°E / 59.2096; 07.5345Coordinates: 59°12′35″N 7°32′04″E / 59.2096°N 07.5345°E / 59.2096; 07.5345
Location Valle, Aust-Agder
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status Parish church
Architecture
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Anders Thorsen Syrtveit
Style Cruciform
Completed 1844
Specifications
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Valle og Hyllestad
Deanery Otredal prosti
Diocese Agder og Telemark

Valle Church (Norwegian: Valle kyrkje) is a parish church in Valle municipality in Aust-Agder county, Norway. It is located in the village of Valle. The church is part of the Valle og Hyllestad parish in the Otredal deanery in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, wooden, cruciform church was built in 1844 by Anders Thorsen Syrtveit using plans by the famous architect Hans Linstow. There have been churches in Valle since the Middle Ages.[1][2]

The main part of the church is 7.6 by 13.9 metres (25 ft × 46 ft) and the choir is 7.6 by 6 metres (25 ft × 20 ft). Altogether with the entrance and the sacristy, the church is 233 square metres (2,510 sq ft). The church seats about 400 people comfortably on the main floor and in the upper gallery. Traditionally, the gallery sat about 150 unmarried people and the main floor sat about 350 married people. The steeple is 22 metres (72 ft) tall.[3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Valle kyrkje, Setesdal". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
  2. ↑ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2017-04-10.
  3. ↑ Homme, Knut K., ed. (1994). Kyrkja på Vaddarhaugen: Valle kyrkje i Setesdal 1844-1994 (in Norwegian). Valle sokneråd. ISBN 8299318408.


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