Stedje Church

Stedje Church (Norwegian: Stedje kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sogndal Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Sogndalsfjøra, near the shore of the Sogndalsfjorden. It is the church for the Stedje parish which is part of the Sogn prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The red, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1867 using designs by the architect Christian Christie. The church seats about 400 people.[1][2]

Stedje Church
Stedje kyrkje
View of the church
Stedje Church
Location of the church
Stedje Church
Stedje Church (Norway)
61.2265°N 7.0957°E / 61.2265; 7.0957
LocationSogndal Municipality,
Vestland
CountryNorway
DenominationChurch of Norway
ChurchmanshipEvangelical Lutheran
History
StatusParish church
Founded12th-century
Consecrated17 Dec 1867
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Architect(s)Christian Christie
Architectural typeLong church
Completed1867
Specifications
Capacity400
MaterialsWood
Administration
ParishStedje
DeanerySogn prosti
DioceseBjørgvin
TypeChurch
StatusListed
ID85557

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1327, but it was not new that year. The church in 1327 was a stave church that may have been built in the 1180s. In 1607, the choir of the stave church was torn down and rebuilt with a 9-by-7.2-metre (30 ft × 24 ft) timber-framed room. The nave of the old stave church measured 14.5 by 10 metres (48 ft × 33 ft).[3]

In 1867, the old church was torn down because it was too small for the parish and a new timber-framed church was constructed on the same site. The new building was consecrated on 17 December 1867 by the Bishop Peter Hersleb Graah Birkeland.[4]

See also

References
  1. "Stedje kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  2. "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  3. "Stedje kyrkjestad" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
  4. Henden Aaraas, Margrethe; Vengen, Sigurd; Gjerde, Anders. "Stedje kyrkje" (in Norwegian). Fylkesarkivet. Retrieved 2019-12-12.
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