Ferkingstad Church () is a
parish church
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of the
Church of Norway
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in
Karmøy Municipality
Karmøy is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is southwest of the town of Haugesund in the traditional district of Haugaland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kopervik.
Most of the municipality lies on ...
in
Rogaland
Rogaland () is a Counties of Norway, county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast. As of 1 January 2024, it had a population of 49 ...
county,
Norway
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. It is located in the village of
Ferkingstad
Ferkingstad is a village in Karmøy municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located on the western shore of the island of Karmøy (island), Karmøy, immediately south of the town of Åkrahamn and a few minutes north of the village ...
on the western side of the
island of Karmøy. It is the church for the Ferkingstad
parish
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which is part of the
Karmøy prosti (
deanery
A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the 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 residence of ...
) in the
Diocese of Stavanger
The Diocese of Stavanger () is a diocese in the Church of Norway. It covers all of Rogaland county in western Norway. The cathedral city is Stavanger, where the Stavanger Cathedral is located. The bishop is Anne Lise Ådnøy, who has held the p ...
. The white, wooden church was built in a
long church
Church building in Norway began when Christianity in Norway, 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 inst ...
design in 1853 using designs by the
architect
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Hans Linstow
Hans Ditlev Franciscus (Frants) von Linstow (4 May 1787 – 10 June 1851) was a Danish/ Norwegian architect who designed the Royal Palace in Oslo and much of the surrounding park and the street '' Karl Johans gate''.
Background
Hans Ditlev Fr ...
. The church seats about 300 people.
History
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1620, but it was likely built in the late 1500s. It is possible that there was another church located at Ferkingstad prior to this one, but there are no existing records to confirm that. The only basis for this conjecture is that the records of the church from the 1600s state that the church inventory was described as old and worn, meaning the inventory for the church may have been reused from a previous church on the site.
In 1853-1854, a new church was constructed about to the south of the old church site. The new church was
consecrate
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d on 26 July 1854. After the new church was completed, the old church was torn down.
Media gallery
Ferkingstad kirke.jpg, View of the church
Ferkingstad gml kirkegård.jpg, Old site of the church (prior to 1853)
See also
*
List of churches in Rogaland
This list of churches in Rogaland is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Stavanger in Norway. It includes all of the parishes in Rogaland county. The diocese is based at the Stavanger Cathedral in the city of Stavanger (city) ...
References
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Karmøy
Churches in Rogaland
Wooden churches in Norway
19th-century Church of Norway church buildings
Churches completed in 1853
16th-century establishments in Norway