Location Bergen, Hordaland Denomination Church of Norway Consecrated 21 Nov 1878 Opened 1878 Phone +47 55 36 22 80 | Country Norway Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran Functional status Active Capacity 300 Status Parish church | |
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Address Hardangervegen 7, 5224 Bergen, Norway Diocese Lutheran Diocese of Bjørgvin Similar Skjold Church, Storetveit Church, Bønes Church, Fana Church, Søreide Church | ||
Birkeland Church (Norwegian: Birkeland kirke or Nesttun kirke) is a parish church in Bergen municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is located in the Nesttun neighborhood of Fana in the city of Bergen. The church is part of the Birkeland parish in the Fana deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, stone church was built in 1878 by the architect Giovanni Jacob Harbitz Müller. The church seats about 300 people. The church has a unique octagonal tower for the copper-clad steeple.
History
The first church here was built before the year 1329. It was probably a stave church that stood very close to the present church. There is a plaque where the previous church once stood. The church was demolished in the early 1600s and replaced by a wooden church. The wooden church was sold to private owners for a while in the 1700s and 1800s, before being bought back by the parish in 1839. Due to maintenance issues and population growth, that church was torn down in 1877 and replaced with a larger stone church in 1878. The new (present) church was consecrated on 21 November 1878.