Nordreisa Church Explained

Nordreisa Church
Fullname:Nordreisa kirke
Coordinates:69.7696°N 21.0334°W
Location:Nordreisa, Troms
Country:Norway
Denomination:Church of Norway
Churchmanship:Evangelical Lutheran
Diocese:Nord-Hålogaland
Parish:Nordreisa
Status:Parish church
Functional Status:Active
Founded Date:1856
Consecrated Date:8 Oct 1856
Architect:Christian Heinrich Grosch
Architectural Type:Long church
Materials:Wood
Capacity:350

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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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Nordreisa kirke . 2018-07-14 . Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen.
  2. Web site: Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker . 2018-07-14 . KirkeKonsulenten.no . Norwegian.
  3. Web site: Nordreisa kirke . 2021-02-21 . Nordreisa sokn . Norwegian.