Vølstad Church

Vølstad Church
Vølstad Church
Vølstad kirke
	View of the church
	60°50′45″N 10°11′03″E / 60.845709614336°N 10.184205472469°E
Location	Nordre Land, Innlandet
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status	Parish church
Founded	1959
Consecrated	24 June 1959
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Per Nordan
Architectural type	Long church
Completed	1959 (65 years ago)
Specifications
Capacity	140
Materials	Wood
Administration
Diocese	Hamar bispedømme
Deanery	Hadeland og Land prosti
Parish	Østsinni
Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site
Type	Church
Status	Not protected
ID	85877

Vølstad Church (Norwegian: Vølstad kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Nordre Land Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vølstad. It is one of the churches for the Østsinni parish which is part of the Hadeland og Land prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar. The brown, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1959 using plans drawn up by the architect Per Nordan. The church seats about 140 people.^[1]^[2]

History

During the 1950s, plans were made to build a church in Vølstad. Per Nordan (the grandson of the noted church architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan) was hired to design the new church. It was a wooden long church that was constructed during 1959. The new church was consecrated on 24 June 1959 (on the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist day).^[3]^[4]

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^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
^ "Vølstad kirkested / Vølstad kirke 2" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 21 January 2022.
^ "Vølstad kirke". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 21 January 2022.