Nordreisa Church

Church in Troms, Norway

69°46′11″N 21°02′00″E / 69.769623°N 21.033357°E / 69.769623; 21.033357LocationNordreisa, TromsCountryNorwayDenominationChurch of NorwayChurchmanshipEvangelical LutheranHistoryStatusParish churchFounded1856Consecrated8 Oct 1856ArchitectureFunctional statusActiveArchitect(s)Christian Heinrich GroschArchitectural typeLong churchCompleted1856 (168 years ago) (1856)SpecificationsCapacity350MaterialsWoodAdministrationDioceseNord-HålogalandDeaneryNord-Troms prostiParishNordreisa

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Nordreisa Church (Norwegian: Nordreisa kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Nordreisa Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the village of Storslett. It is one of the two churches for the Nordreisa parish which is part of the Nord-Troms prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1856 using plans drawn up by the architect Christian Heinrich Grosch. The church seats about 350 people.^[1]^[2]

History

Construction was approved for the church around 1850 and the architect Christian Heinrich Grosch sent the architectural drawings to the parish leaders on 9 August 1852 for the new church. The building was consecrated on 8 October 1856 by the Bishop Knud Gislesen. During the last winter of World War II (1944–1945), the church was used as a residence for German soldiers, and the service building nearby was used as a horse stable. The church was spared during the burning of Finnmark and Northern Troms by the retreating German Army in 1945, but much of the church inventory disappeared during this period. A few years after the war a baptismal bowl from 1856 was found in a pile of horse manure. It was cleaned up and returned to the church.^[3]

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References

^ "Nordreisa kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 14 July 2018.
^ "Nordreisa kirke" (in Norwegian). Nordreisa sokn. Retrieved 21 February 2021.