Location Sør-Varanger, Finnmark Denomination Church of Norway Functional status Active Opened 1902 Status Parish church | Country Norway Churchmanship Evangelical Completed 1902 Capacity 155 Architect Karl Norum | |
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Address Fv352 110, 9930 Neiden, Norway Diocese Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland Similar Svanvik Church, Bugøynes Chapel, Kirkenes Church, King Oscar II Chapel, Hamningberg Chapel | ||
Neiden Chapel (Norwegian: Neiden kapell) is a parish church in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Neiden. The church is part of the Sør-Varanger parish in the Varanger deanery in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The red wooden church was built in 1902 and it seats about 155 people.
History
In 1898, many farmers in Neiden made a request to the Ministry of Church and Education to have a church and a cemetery built in Neiden. Only four years later, the church was finished. The residents' desire to have a church coincided with the government's desire to secure the border from Finnish-Russian expansion, and a Norwegian church near the border would help. Architect Karl Norum was very keen on old Norwegian stave churches, and he created a building that would be an expression of Norwegian culture and national cohesion in a border area. The chapel had 155 seats and costed 32,900 kr at that time. The chapel was consecrated on 13 July 1902.