Tjøtta Church

Tjøtta Church
Tjøtta kirke

View of the church
Tjøtta Church
Location in Nordland
Tjøtta Church
Location in Nordland
Coordinates: 65°49′38″N 12°25′32″E / 65.8272°N 12.4256°E / 65.8272; 12.4256
Location Alstahaug, Nordland
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Christian Heinrich Grosch
Completed 1851
Specifications
Materials Stone
Administration
Parish Tjøtta
Deanery Nord-Helgeland
Diocese Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland

Tjøtta Church (Norwegian: Tjøtta kirke) is a parish church in the municipality of Alstahaug in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Tjøtta. The church is part of the Tjøtta parish in the Nord-Helgeland deanery in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. The stone church was built in 1851 by the architect Christian Heinrich Grosch and it seats about 310 people.[1]

See also

References

  1. "Tjøtta kirke" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2012-01-04.


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