Bjerkvik Church

Bjerkvik Church
Bjerkvik Church
Bjerkvik kirke
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	Bjerkvik Church Location of the church Bjerkvik Church Bjerkvik Church (Norway)
	68°32′54″N 17°33′42″E / 68.5484°N 17.5617°E
Location	Narvik, Nordland
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status	Parish church
Founded	1914
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Arnstein Arneberg; and Per Solemslie
Architectural type	Long church
Completed	1955
Specifications
Capacity	320
Materials	Concrete
Administration
Diocese	Sør-Hålogaland
Deanery	Ofoten prosti
Parish	Bjerkvik

Bjerkvik Church (Norwegian: Bjerkvik kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Narvik Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Bjerkvik. It is the church for the Bjerkvik parish which is part of the Ofoten prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. The white, concrete church was built in a long church style in 1955 by the architects Arnstein Arneberg and Per Solemslie. The church seats about 320 people.^[1]^[2]

History

The first church was built in Bjerkvik in 1914. Allied forces destroyed it on 13 April 1940, during World War II. Its replacement was completed in 1955 and consecrated that 14 August by the Bishop Wollert Krohn-Hansen.^[3]

^ "Bjerkvik kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2018-11-11.
^ Store norske leksikon. "Bjerkvik" (in Norwegian). Retrieved 2012-06-04.