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Ørsta Church

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Country
  
Churchmanship
  
Evangelical Lutheran

Completed
  
1864

Opened
  
1864

Phone
  
+47 70 04 86 40

Diocese
  
Denomination
  
Functional status
  
Active

Address
  
6150 Ørsta, Norway

Capacity
  
350

Status
  
Ørsta Church

Location
  
Ørsta Municipality,Møre og Romsdal

Similar
  
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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.

References

Ørsta Church Wikipedia


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