Location Finnøy, Rogaland Denomination Church of Norway Functional status Active Address 4160 Finnøy, Norway Status Parish church | Country Norway Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran Completed c. 1100 Capacity 230 Diocese Diocese of Stavanger | |
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Similar Talgje Church, Sjernarøy Church, Hausken Church, Fogn Church, Sørbø Church | ||
Hesby Church (Norwegian: Hesby kirke) is a parish church in Finnøy municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hesby on the island of Finnøy. The church is part of the Hesby parish in the Tungenes deanery in the Diocese of Stavanger. The old, stone church was first built around the year 1100, but it has been renovated and added on to several times since then. The church walls are about 1-metre (3 ft 3 in) thick. For a while, there was a steeple, but that was removed during the 1800s.
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