Consecrated 18 September 1850 Opened 1850 | Churchmanship Evangelical Functional status Historic (rarely used) Capacity 200 | |
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Skorpa Church (Norwegian: Skorpa kirke) is a historic parish church in the municipality of Kvænangen in Troms county, Norway. It is located on the small island of Skorpa. The church is part of the Kvænangen parish in the Nord-Troms deanery in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The white wooden church was built in 1850 and it was consecrated on 18 September 1850 by the Bishop Daniel Bremer Juell. The church seats about 200 people.
History
A chapel was built on the island in 1795. It may not have been the first chapel on Skorpa, but there is little known before that time. That chapel was replaced with the current church building in 1850. When Kvænangen became an independent municipality in 1863, this church became the main church for the municipality. The island, which originally was the administrative centre of the municipality, gradually became less populated and later the administration was moved to Burfjord. In 1956, Sekkemo Church was built on the mainland and that church became the main church for the municipality. Today, Skorpa is an uninhabited island and the church is only rarely used—mostly for special occasions.