Country Denmark Architectural type Church Materials Brick Phone +45 38 10 73 55 Material Brick Architect Thorvald Jørgensen | Denomination Church of Denmark Completed 1908 Opened 1908 Status Church Archdiocese Diocese of Copenhagen | |
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Location 17 Nitivej
Frederiksberg, Copenhagen Address Nitivej 17, 2000 Frederiksberg, Denmark Similar St Luke's Church - Copenhagen, St Mark's Church - Copenhagen, Solbjerg Church, Godthaab Church - Copenhagen, Frederiksberg Church | ||
Mariendal Church (Danish: Mariendals Kirke) is a church in the Frederiksberg district of Copenhagen, Denmark.
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History
Mariendal parish was disjoined from that of St. Thomas' in 1905 when the owners of the Mariendal estate, Niels and Thora Josephsen, donated the building site and most of the funds needed for constructing the church and the parish hall. The street name Nitivej is a concentration of the couple's initials, "NJTJ". The Copenhagen Church Foundation erected a temporary church in cocolith, a mixture of fibers from coconut and plaster, which was moved to a new church project in 1908.
Architecture
The present Mariendal Church is built to a Historicist design. It stands on a granite plinth and a rose window and a loggia dominate the facade.
Interior
The barrel vaulted church room has a carved choir pulpit and wooden galleries in Art Nouveau style on three sides. In a crypt under the choir rest the remains of Niels and Thora Josephsen. Knud Larsen's original altarpiece has been integrated in a new decoration of the church's choir which was carried out in 1988 by artist Mogens Jørgensen.
The font by Siegfried Wagner is in granite with bronze-plate. The altar silver is endowed with jewels from Thora Josephsen's personal jewellery.