Innvik Church

Innvik Church
Innvik kyrkje

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Innvik Church
Location in Sogn og Fjordane county
Innvik Church
Location in Sogn og Fjordane county
61°51′13″N 6°37′01″E / 61.8537°N 6.6170°E / 61.8537; 6.6170Coordinates: 61°51′13″N 6°37′01″E / 61.8537°N 6.6170°E / 61.8537; 6.6170
Location Stryn Municipality,
Sogn og Fjordane
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Consecrated 28 July 1824
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Style Octagonal
Completed 1824
Specifications
Capacity 350
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Innvik
Deanery Nordfjord prosti
Diocese Diocese of Bjørgvin

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]

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References

  1. ↑ "Innvik kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
  2. ↑ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2013-10-11.
  3. ↑ "Innvik kyrkje" (in Norwegian). NRK Fylkesleksikon. Retrieved 2013-10-11.



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