Country Norway Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran Completed 1864 Opened 1864 Phone +47 70 04 86 40 Diocese Diocese of Møre | Denomination Church of Norway Functional status Active Address 6150 Ørsta, Norway Capacity 350 Status Parish church | |
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Location Ørsta Municipality,
Møre og Romsdal Architects Heinrich Ernst Schirmer, Wilhelm von Hanno Similar Hjørundfjord Church, Hareid Church, Austefjord Church, Ulstein Church, Indre Herøy Church Profiles | ||
Ørsta Church (Norwegian: Ørsta kyrkje) is a parish church in Ørsta Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Ørsta, at the end of the Ørstafjorden. The church is part of the Ørsta parish in the Søre Sunnmøre deanery in the Diocese of Møre. The white, wooden church was built in 1864 by the architects Heinrich Ernst Schirmer and Wilhelm von Hanno. The church seats about 350 people.
There has been a church here in Ørsta for centuries. There was a stave church and then a cruciform church. In 1864, the previous church was taken down and replaced with the present church.
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