Strandlandet Church

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Strandlandet Church
Strandlandet kirke
Strandlandet Church
Location in Nordland
Coordinates: 68°23′34″N 14°28′08″E / 68.3929°N 14.4688°E / 68.3929; 14.4688
Location Vågan, Nordland
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Sverre Pettersen
Completed 1938
Specifications
Capacity 250
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Strandlandet
Deanery Lofoten prosti
Diocese Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland

Strandlandet Church (Norwegian: Strandlandet kirke) is a parish church in the municipality of Vågan in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Straumnes on the northwestern part of the island of Austvågøya. The church is part of the Strandlandet parish in the Lofoten deanery in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. The white wooden church was built in 1938 to serve the eastern part of the old municipality of Gimsøy. It was designed by Sverre Pettersen and it seats about 250 people.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. "Strandlandet kirke" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2012-07-18. 
  2. "Strandlandet kirke" (in Norwegian). Vågan kirkelige fellesråd. Retrieved 2012-07-18. 


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