Lura Church | |
Fullname: | Lura kirke |
Coordinates: | 58.8726°N 5.7317°W |
Location: | Sandnes, Rogaland |
Country: | Norway |
Churchmanship: | Evangelical Lutheran |
Denomination: | Church of Norway |
Diocese: | Stavanger bispedømme |
Parish: | Lura |
Status: | Parish church |
Functional Status: | Active |
Founded Date: | 1987 |
Consecrated Date: | 1987 |
Completed Date: | 1987 |
Architect: | Ingeborg Hoem and Knut Hoem |
Architectural Type: | Fan-shaped |
Materials: | Brick |
Capacity: | 320 |
Lura Church (Norwegian: Lura kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in the large Sandnes municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the borough of Lura in the northern part of the city of Sandnes in the extreme western part of the municipality. It is the church for the Lura parish which is part of the Sandnes prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Stavanger. The red, brick church was built in a fan-shaped design in 1987 using plans drawn up by the architects Ingeborg and Knut Hoem. The church seats about 320 people.[1] [2]