Bodom Church

Bodom Church
Bodom kirke

View of the church
Bodom Church
Location in Nord-Trøndelag
Bodom Church
Location in Nord-Trøndelag
Coordinates: 63°58′21″N 11°55′05″E / 63.9725°N 11.9180°E / 63.9725; 11.9180
Location Steinkjer, Nord-Trøndelag
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Consecrated 1 August 1905
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) G. Wiese Opsahl
Completed 1905
Specifications
Capacity 150
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Ogndal
Deanery Nord-Innherad
Diocese Diocese of Nidaros

Bodom Church (Norwegian: Bodom kirke, formerly called Bodom kapell) is a parish church in the municipality of Steinkjer in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Bodom in the Upper Ogndal area of Steinkjer, about 26 kilometres (16 mi) east of the town of Steinkjer. The church is part of the Ogndal parish in the Nord-Innherad deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros.[1]

The white wooden church was built in 1905 to seat about 150 people. The building was designed by G. Wiese Opsal. The new church was consecrated on 1 August 1905 by the bishop Vilhelm Andreas Wexelsen.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Bodom kirke" (in Norwegian). Den Norske Kirke. Retrieved 2011-08-01.
  2. ↑ "Bodom kapell" (in Norwegian). Steinkjerleksikonet. Retrieved 2011-08-01.


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