Neiden Chapel | |
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Neiden kapell | |
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69°42′07″N 29°23′18″E / 69.7019°N 29.3884°E | |
Location | Sør-Varanger, Finnmark |
Country | Norway |
Denomination | Church of Norway |
Churchmanship | Evangelical Lutheran |
History | |
Status | Parish church |
Founded | 1902 |
Consecrated | 13 July 1902 |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Architect(s) | Karl Norum |
Architectural type | Long church |
Style | Dragestil |
Completed | 1902 |
Specifications | |
Capacity | 155 |
Materials | Wood |
Administration | |
Diocese | Nord-Hålogaland |
Deanery | Varanger prosti |
Parish | Sør-Varanger |
Type | Church |
Status | Listed |
ID | 85100 |
Neiden Chapel (Norwegian: Neiden kapell) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Neiden. It is one of the churches for the Sør-Varanger parish which is part of the Varanger prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The red and white, wooden church was built in a long church format in the style called dragestil in 1902 by the architect Karl Norum. The church seats about 155 people.[1][2]
History
[edit]In 1898, many farmers in Neiden made a request to the Ministry of Church and Education to have a church and a cemetery built in Neiden. Only four years later, the church was finished. The residents' desire to have a church coincided with the government's desire to secure the border from Finnish-Russian expansion, and a Norwegian church near the border would help. Architect Karl Norum was very keen on old Norwegian stave churches, and he created a dragestil building that would be an expression of Norwegian culture and national cohesion in a border area. The chapel had 155 seats and it cost 32,900 kr at that time. The chapel was consecrated on 13 July 1902.[3]
Russian Orthodox chapel
[edit]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Sankt_Georgs_kapell_i_Neiden.jpg/220px-Sankt_Georgs_kapell_i_Neiden.jpg)
There is also a Russian Orthodox chapel located nearby in Neiden, built in the 16th century as a part of Russian Christianisation of the Skolt samis who were the inhabitants of the area at that time.
Media gallery
[edit]See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
- ^ "Neiden kapell" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 8 March 2013.
- ^ "Kirker i Sør-Varanger sogn" (in Norwegian). Vadsø prosti. Retrieved 8 March 2013.