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Lavik Church

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Country
  
Norway

Churchmanship
  
Evangelical Lutheran

Functional status
  
Active

Capacity
  
380

Architect
  
Christian Heinrich Grosch

Denomination
  
Church of Norway

Consecrated
  
10 Dec 1865

Opened
  
1865

Status
  
Parish church

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Location
  
Høyanger Municipality, Sogn og Fjordane

Diocese
  
Lutheran Diocese of Bjørgvin

Similar
  
Bjordal Church, Namdalseid Church, Kyrkjebø Church, Otterøy Church, Ortnevik Church

Lavik Church (Norwegian: Lavik kyrkje) is a parish church in Høyanger Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the village of Lavik on the northern shore of the Sognefjorden. The church is part of the Lavik parish in the Sunnfjord deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.

There have been churches here since at least the 12th century. The previous church was too small for the parish, so it was torn down and the present church was built. The present Lavik Church is a white, wooden, octagonal church that has 380 seats. It was consecrated on 10 December 1865 by the Dean Thomas Erichsen. The architect Christian Henrik Grosch made the designs for the church. This is not the first church on this site. Prior to 1809, Lavik church was an annex church in the Evindvig parish, but since 1809 it has been its own parish.

References

Lavik Church Wikipedia