Country Norway Churchmanship Evangelical Completed 1858 Capacity 250 Architect Christian Heinrich Grosch | Denomination Church of Norway Functional status Active Opened 1858 Status Parish church | |
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Location Nesseby Municipality, Finnmark Address 70°08'41. 28°51'36., 7th Ave 6, 49870 Norway Diocese Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland Similar Kistrand Church, Namdalseid Church, Agdenes Church, Lensvik Church, Otterøy Church | ||
Nesseby church
Nesseby Church (Norwegian: Nesseby kirke) is a parish church in Nesseby Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located on a peninsula in the village of Nesseby, overlooking the Varangerfjorden. The church is part of the Nesseby parish in the Indre Finnmark deanery in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The prayer books in the church are in the Northern Sami language.
Adjacent to the church is what is regarded by some as the oldest chapel in the Varanger area, dating from the 18th century.
Designed by Christian Heinrich Grosch and built of wood in 1858, it has seats for 250 people. It was fully restored in 1983. The church has a narrow choir whose floor is higher than that of the nave. There are sacristies beside the choir, which has a lower ceiling, of a type called a "saddle ceiling", than that of the nave. The roof is supported by wooden columns which separate the central nave from two side-naves. This style was used in churches designed by Grosch in the 1850s. The nave is also distinguished from the two side-naves by the fact that the latter have lower ceilings, a feature which, apparently, Grosch derived from German church design.