Innvik Church
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Innvik Church | |
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Innvik kyrkje | |
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61°51′13″N 6°37′01″E / 61.8537°N 6.6170°E | |
Location | Stryn Municipality, Sogn og Fjordane |
Country | Norway |
Denomination | Church of Norway |
Churchmanship | Evangelical Lutheran |
History | |
Status | Parish church |
Consecrated | 28 July 1824 |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Style | Octagonal |
Completed | 1824 |
Specifications | |
Capacity | 350 |
Materials | Wood |
Administration | |
Diocese | Diocese of Bjørgvin |
Deanery | Nordfjord prosti |
Parish | Innvik |
Innvik Church (Norwegian: Innvik kyrkje) is a parish church in Stryn Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the village of Innvik. The church is part of the Innvik parish in the Nordfjord deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. There has been a church at Innvik since the Middle Ages. The original church was a stave church, but that church eventually needed to be replaced, and then the present church was built. The present church is a white, wooden, octagonal church that was built in 1824 by Elling Olsen Waldboe. The church seats about 350 people.[1][2][3]
See also
References
- ^ "Innvik kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
- ^ "Innvik kyrkje" (in Norwegian). NRK Fylkesleksikon. Retrieved 2013-10-11.