Ibestad Church

Ibestad Church
Ibestad kirke

View of the church
Ibestad Church
Location in Troms
Ibestad Church
Location in Troms
Coordinates: 68°47′15″N 17°09′14″E / 68.7876°N 17.1538°E / 68.7876; 17.1538
Location Ibestad, Troms
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Founded 13th century
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) J. A. Johansen
Style Neo-gothic
Completed 1881
Specifications
Capacity 500
Materials Stone
Administration
Parish Ibestad
Deanery Trondenes prosti
Diocese Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland

Ibestad Church (Norwegian: Ibestad kirke) is a parish church in the municipality of Ibestad in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hamnvik in eastern part of the island of Rolla. The church is part of the Ibestad parish in the Trondenes deanery in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland.

History

The white, stone church was built in 1881 in a Neo-gothic style. The architect was J. A. Johansen from Trondheim. The church seats about 500 people. The current church is the most recent in a series of churches on the site dating back to the mid-13th century or early 14th century. The church building on the site just before the current church was built in the 1770s and that church replaced an even older church from the middle ages. Much of the stone used in the present church was recycled from the older churches and reused in the current church.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Ibestad kirke" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2012-09-08.
  2. ↑ "Ibestad kirke" (in Norwegian). Arkitekturguide: Nord-Norge og Svalbard. Retrieved 2012-09-08.


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