Mære Church

Mære Church
Mære kirke

View of the church

Mære Church
Location in Nord-Trøndelag
Location Steinkjer, Nord-Trøndelag
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Completed c. 1150
Specifications
Capacity 250
Materials Stone
Administration
Parish Mære
Deanery Nord-Innherad
Diocese Diocese of Nidaros

Mære Church (Norwegian: Mære kirke) is a parish church in the municipality of Steinkjer in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Mære. The church is part of the Mære parish in the Nord-Innherad deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros.

The stone church was built during the 1100s on a pre-Christian place of worship that was mentioned in the old Norse sagas. Several renovations and restorations have been undertaken over the years, most recently in the 1960s.[1]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Mære kirke" (in Norwegian). Steinkjerleksikonet. http://www.steinkjerleksikonet.no/index.php?artikkel=523. Retrieved 2011-07-31.