Komagfjord Church

Komagfjord Church
Komagfjord kirke
Komagfjord Church
Location in Finnmark
Komagfjord Church
Location in Finnmark
Coordinates: 70°15′32″N 23°25′00″E / 70.2588°N 23.4166°E / 70.2588; 23.4166
Location Alta, Finnmark
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Turid and Kristen Bernhoff Evensen
Completed 1960
Specifications
Capacity 250
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Talvik
Deanery Alta prosti
Diocese Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland

Komagfjord Church (Norwegian: Komagfjord kirke) is a parish church in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Komagfjord. The church is part of the Talvik parish in the Alta deanery in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The brown wooden church was built in 1959-1960 and it was consecrated on 10 April 1960.[1]

History

The first church was consecrated in Komagfjord on 15 September 1887. It was a white church, and was slightly up on the hill above the shop and pier. The church, along with most buildings in Finnmark county, was burned down by German soldiers as the fled the country in 1944, near the end of World War II.

Shortly after the war, a temporary building was constructed to replace the church. It was consecrated on 16 February 1947 by Bishop Wollert Krohn-Hansen. That building was used for 13 years before a new church was finally built.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Komagfjord kirke" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-01-23.
  2. ↑ "Komagfjord kirke" (in Norwegian). Alta kirkelige fellesråd. Retrieved 2013-01-23.



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