Functional status Preserved Parish Gildeskål | Country Norway Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran Style Stone Capacity 130 | |
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Similar Gildeskål Church, Saura Church, Old Værøy Church, Værøy Church, Mevik Chapel | ||
Old Gildeskål Church (Norwegian: Gildeskål gamle kirke) is a parish church in the municipality of Gildeskål in Nordland county, Norway. It is located just north of the village of Inndyr. The church is part of the Gildeskål parish in the Bodø deanery in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.
History
The stone church was built around the year 1130. In 1851, a new law was passed that said that all rural churches had to be able to fit at least 30% of the parish members in the church building. Since this church could only seat about 130 people, it was too small, therefore a new church had to be built for the parish. It was decided that the new church would be built on the same site, just west of the old church. The new Gildeskål Church was completed in 1881 and it seated about 750 people.