Hen Church
Hen Church | |
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Hen kyrkje | |
View of the church | |
![]() ![]() Hen Church Location in Møre og Romsdal | |
Coordinates: 62°34′39″N 7°47′27″E / 62.5775°N 7.7908°E | |
Location |
Rauma Municipality, Møre og Romsdal |
Country | Norway |
Denomination | Church of Norway |
Churchmanship | Evangelical Lutheran |
Architecture | |
Status | Parish church |
Functional status | Active |
Completed | 1831 |
Specifications | |
Capacity | 200 |
Materials | Stone |
Administration | |
Parish | Hen |
Deanery | Indre Romsdal prosti |
Diocese | Diocese of Møre |
Hen Church (Norwegian: Hen kyrkje) is a parish church in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Isfjorden. It is about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of the town of Åndalsnes. The church is part of the Hen parish in the Indre Romsdal deanery in the Diocese of Møre.[1][2]
There has been a church in this village for centuries. There are some artifacts from the church dating back to the 1200s that are now at the Romsdal Museum. The present church was built out of granite in 1831 on the site of an older church that had been razed. The white stone church has an onion dome on top of a central tower on the roof. The current pulpit is from the 1930s and the altarpiece from 1831.[3][4]
Media gallery
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Exterior view
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Onion dome
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Side view
References
- ↑ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
- ↑ "Hen kirke, Isfjorden". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
- ↑ Thaule, John Ove; Ubostad, Ingar; Pedersen, Bjørn (1990). "Kyrkjene våre". Ei bok om Rauma. Rauma kommune. pp. 207–210.
- ↑ "Hen kirke" (in Norwegian). Grytten prestegjeld. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
External links
- http://www.grytten-prestegjeld.no/hen.htm (Norwegian)
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