Nesseby Church

Nesseby Church
Nesseby kirke

View of the church
Nesseby Church
Location in Finnmark
Nesseby Church
Location in Finnmark
Coordinates: 70°08′42″N 28°51′38″E / 70.1449°N 28.8606°E / 70.1449; 28.8606
Location Nesseby Municipality, Finnmark
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Christian Heinrich Grosch
Completed 1858
Specifications
Capacity 250
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Nesseby
Deanery Indre Finnmark prosti
Diocese Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland

Nesseby Church (Norwegian: Nesseby kirke) is a parish church in Nesseby Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located on a peninsula in the village of Nesseby, overlooking the Varangerfjorden. The church is part of the Nesseby parish in the Indre Finnmark deanery in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The prayer books in the church are in the Northern Sami language.[1]

Adjacent to the church is what is regarded by some as the oldest chapel in the Varanger area, dating from the 18th century.[2][3]

Designed by Christian Heinrich Grosch and built of wood in 1858, it has seats for 250 people. It was fully restored in 1983. The church has a narrow choir whose floor is higher than that of the nave. There are sacristies beside the choir, which has a lower ceiling, of a type called a "saddle ceiling", than that of the nave. The roof is supported by wooden columns which separate the central nave from two side-naves. This style was used in churches designed by Grosch in the 1850s. The nave is also distinguished from the two side-naves by the fact that the latter have lower ceilings, a feature which, apparently,[4] Grosch derived from German church design.

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References

  1. ↑ "Nesseby kirke" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
  2. ↑ "Nesseby Church". VisitNorway.com.
  3. ↑ "Nesseby photo album; 38 Photos from Nesseby, including many of the church".
  4. ↑ "Nesseby kirke". University of Tromsø - Architecture guide to Northern Norway and Svalbard.


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