| Kristiansand Cathedral | |
| Kristiansand Domkirke | |
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Kristiansand Cathedral
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Kristiansand Cathedral
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| Location | Kristiansand, Vest-Agder |
| Country | Norway |
| Denomination | Church of Norway |
| Churchmanship | Evangelical |
| Website | www.kristiansanddomkirke.no |
| History | |
| Former name(s) | Trinity Church, Our Saviors Church |
| Architecture | |
| Status | Cathedral |
| Functional status | Active |
| Architect(s) | Henrik Thrap-Meyer |
| Style | Neo Gothic |
| Specifications | |
| Materials | Brick, cement |
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| Diocese | Diocese of Agder og Telemark |
Kristiansand Cathedral (Norway: Kristiansand Domkirke) in Kristiansand, Norway is the seat of the Bishop of Agder and Telemark in the Church of Norway. It is a Neo-Gothic church completed in 1885 and designed by the architect Henrik Thrap-Meyer.[1]
It is the third cathedral built in the town of Kristiansand and one of the largest cathedrals in Norway. It is 70 m long and 39 m wide, and the only tower is 70 m in height. In the beginning, the cathedral had 2,029 seats, but is now reduced to 1,300 people.
In order to exploit the ancient walls of the church that burned in 1880, was the altar placed against the west, while the churches usually tend to have the altar in the east.
The cathedral is on the same location as the three previous churches. The first one, called Trinity Church was built in 1645 and was a small wooden church. When Kristiansand was appointed capital of the diocese in 1682, began building the first cathedral of the city, called Our Saviors Church. The first cathedral, built in stone, was consecrated in 1696, but burned down in 1734. The second cathedral, consecrated in 1738, was ruined by a fire that affected the whole city, on 18 December 1880. When the 1940 German attack on Kristiansand took place early in the morning of 9 April 1940, the cathedral tower was hit by a grenade which fortunately only hit the tower's upper part.[2][3]
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