Nesseby Church
| Nesseby Church | |
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| Nesseby kirke | |
 View of the church | |
  Nesseby Church Location in Finnmark  Nesseby Church Nesseby Church (Norway) | |
| 70°08′42″N 28°51′38″E / 70.1449°N 28.8606°E | |
| Location | Nesseby Municipality, Finnmark |
| Country | Norway |
| Denomination | Church of Norway |
| Churchmanship | Evangelical |
| History | |
| Status | Parish church |
| Architecture | |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architect(s) | Christian Heinrich Grosch |
| Completed | 1858 |
| Specifications | |
| Capacity | 250 |
| Materials | Wood |
| Administration | |
| Diocese | Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland |
| Deanery | Indre Finnmark prosti |
| Parish | Nesseby |
Nesseby Church (Norwegian: Nesseby kirke) is a parish church in Nesseby Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located on a peninsula in the village of Nesseby, overlooking the Varangerfjorden. The church is part of the Nesseby parish in the Indre Finnmark deanery in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The prayer books in the church are in the Northern Sami language.[1]
Adjacent to the church is what is regarded by some as the oldest chapel in the Varanger area, dating from the 18th century.[2][3]
Designed by Christian Heinrich Grosch and built of wood in 1858, it has seats for 250 people. It was fully restored in 1983. The church has a narrow choir whose floor is higher than that of the nave. There are sacristies beside the choir, which has a lower ceiling, of a type called a "saddle ceiling", than that of the nave. The roof is supported by wooden columns which separate the central nave from two side-naves. This style was used in churches designed by Grosch in the 1850s. The nave is also distinguished from the two side-naves by the fact that the latter have lower ceilings, a feature which, apparently,[4] Grosch derived from German church design.
See also
References
- ^ "Nesseby kirke" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
- ^ "Nesseby Church". VisitNorway.com.
- ^ "Nesseby photo album; 38 Photos from Nesseby, including many of the church".
- ^ "Nesseby kirke". University of Tromsø - Architecture guide to Northern Norway and Svalbard.
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