Bø Church ( no, Bø kyrkje) is a parish church of the

Church of Norway The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church b ...

Midt-Telemark Municipality Midt-Telemark is a municipality in the traditional and electoral district Telemark in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. The municipality was established on 1 January 2020 when the former municipalities of Bø and Sauherad combined. There are ...

in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Bø. It is the main church for the Bø parish which is part of the

Øvre Telemark prosti This list of churches in Agder og Telemark is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark in Agder and Vestfold og Telemark counties in southern Norway. The diocese is based at the Kristiansand Cathedral in the cit ...

(

deanery A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residenc ...

) in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, wooden church was built in a

long church Church building in Norway began when Christianity was established there around the year 1000. The first buildings may have been post churches erected in the 10th or 11th century, but the evidence is inconclusive. For instance under Urnes Stave C ...

design in 1875 using plans drawn up by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. The church seats about 450 people.

History

The

Old Bø Church Old Bø Church ( no, Bø gamle kyrkje) is a former parish church of the Church of Norway in Midt-Telemark Municipality in Vestfold og Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Bø. It used to be the main church for the Bø par ...

was used for centuries by the people of Bø. By the mid-1800s, the old church was in seriously bad shape. There were structural problems that were threatening the building, in addition to the fact that the old church was much smaller than it should be for the size of the parish. It was then decided to build a new church to replace the old building. Designs for the new church were drawn by Jacob Wilhelm Nordan and it was decided to build the new church on the west side of the present churchyard, about to the northwest of the old church. The new church was built in 1874-1875 and it was

consecrated Consecration is the solemn dedication to a special purpose or service. The word ''consecration'' literally means "association with the sacred". Persons, places, or things can be consecrated, and the term is used in various ways by different grou ...

in 1875. After this, the

was closed and no longer used (later the old church was restored and preserved for history).

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Bø kirke, med minnestøtte for krigen 1807-1814.jpg Bø kirke - no-nb digifoto 20160223 00268 NB MIT FNR 02085.jpg Bø kirke, kirkegården.jpg Bø gamle kirke, med kirkegården.jpg, View of the Old Bø Church on the other side of the cemetery Orgel i Nye Bø Kirke.jpg Skib i Bø Nye Kirke.jpg

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