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Skjerstad Church

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Location
  
Bodø, Nordland

Denomination
  
Church of Norway

Founded
  
1877

Address
  
8102 Skjerstad, Norway

Capacity
  
500

Diocese
  
Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland

Country
  
Norway

Churchmanship
  
Evangelical Lutheran

Events
  
Fire: 17 May 1955

Opened
  
1959

Status
  
Parish church

Architect
  
Arnstein Arneberg

Skjerstad Church

Similar
  
Kjerringøy Church, Saltstraumen Church, Tverlandet Church, Helligvær Church, Rønvik Church

Skjerstad Church (Norwegian: Skjerstad kirke) is a parish church in the municipality of Bodø in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Skjerstad, along Skjerstad Fjord. The church is part of the Misvær og Skjerstad parish in the Bodø deanery in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. The white, stone and concrete church was built in 1959, and it was designed by Arnstein Arneberg. The church seats about 500 people. The church was built to replace an earlier, larger church built in 1877. The 1877 church was destroyed by fire on 17 May 1955.

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Skjerstad Church Wikipedia