Tveit Church (Vest-Agder)

Tveit Church
Tveit kirke

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Tveit Church
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Tveit Church
Location in of the church
58°13′42″N 8°07′17″E / 58.2283°N 08.1214°E / 58.2283; 08.1214Coordinates: 58°13′42″N 8°07′17″E / 58.2283°N 08.1214°E / 58.2283; 08.1214
Location Kristiansand, Vest-Agder
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Unknown
Style Romanesque
Completed c. 1100
Specifications
Capacity 350
Materials Stone
Administration
Parish Tveit
Deanery Kristiansand prosti
Diocese Agder og Telemark

Tveit Church (Norwegian: Tveit kirke) is a parish church in Kristiansand municipality in Vest-Agder county, Norway. It is located just outside the village of Ryen in the district of Tveit in the borough of Oddernes in the northeastern part of the city of Kristiansand. The church is part of the Tveit parish in the Kristiansand arch-deanery in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, stone church was built around the year 1100 by an unknown architect and is protected by law.[1] The church seats about 350 people.[2][3][4]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Tveit kirkested Kulturminnesøk Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage Retrieved 2017-02-12.
  2. ↑ "Tveit kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
  3. ↑ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2017-02-01.
  4. ↑ "Tveit kirke" (in Norwegian). Tveit menighet. Retrieved 2017-02-01.


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