Ålhus Church

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Ålhus Church
Ålhus kyrkje

View of the church
Ålhus Church
Location in Sogn og Fjordane county
61°31′51″N 6°14′03″E / 61.5308°N 6.2341°E / 61.5308; 6.2341Coordinates: 61°31′51″N 6°14′03″E / 61.5308°N 6.2341°E / 61.5308; 6.2341
Location Jølster Municipality,
Sogn og Fjordane
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Gunder Gregoriussen Støfringshaug
Completed 1795
Specifications
Capacity 250
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Ålhus
Deanery Sunnfjord prosti
Diocese Diocese of Bjørgvin

Ålhus Church (Norwegian: Ålhus kyrkje) is a parish church in Jølster Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the village of Ålhus on the northern shore of the lake Jølstravatnet. The church is part of the Ålhus parish in the Sunnfjord deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.[1][2]

History

Ålhus Church was built in 1795, on the same spot as a stave church from the Middle Ages. The white, wooden church was designed by the architect Gunder Gregoriussen Støfringshaug. The new Ålhus Church was restored in 1868 and again in the years 1947-1951. In the porch of the church there is a door that said to be from the castle to Audun Hugleiksson.[3]

Media gallery

  • View of the church from 1926

  • View of the church

  • The old door from the castle

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ålhus kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-11-25. 
  2. ↑ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2013-11-25. 
  3. ↑ "Ålhus Church". Sogn og Fjordane Fylkesarkiv. Retrieved 2013-11-25. 


Church of Norway churches in the Sunnfjord deanery, Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway

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