Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran Completed 1871 Opened 1871 Phone +47 71 51 33 88 | Functional status Active Address 6530 Averøy, Norway Capacity 350 | |
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Kornstad kirke kornstad church aver y norway
Kornstad Church (Norwegian: Kornstad kyrkje) is a parish church in Averøy Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Kornstad on the western coast of the island of Averøya, along the Kornstadfjorden. The church is part of the Kornstad parish in the Ytre Nordmøre deanery in the Diocese of Møre. The white wooden church was built in 1871 by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. The church seats about 350 people.
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History
The first church at Kornstad was built before 17 June 1386 when the State Archives in Trondheim says there was a mass held at Kornstad Church. That church existed for a long time and was probably the one that was torn down in 1871 when the present church was built. There may have been a second church built at some point in between the first church and the present church, but that is not definitively known. The present church was built in 1871 and many items from the old church were saved and re-used in the present church. Some of those items include the church bells and the two altar candlesticks.