Langfjord Church ( no, Langfjord kirke) 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 ...

in Alta Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Langfjordbotn. It is one of the churches for the Talvik parish which is part of the

Alta prosti Alta or ALTA may refer to: Acronyms * Alt-A, short for Alternative A-paper, is a type of U.S. mortgage * American Land Title Association, a national trade association representing the land title industry * American Literary Translators Associatio ...

(

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 Nord-Hålogaland Nord-Hålogaland ( no, Nord-Hålogaland bispedømme) is a diocese in the Church of Norway. It covers the Church of Norway churches in Troms og Finnmark county as well as in the territory of Svalbard. The diocese is seated in the city of Tromsø ...

. 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 ...

style in 1891 using plans drawn up by the architect Tygen. The church seats about 180 people.

History

The church was built in 1891 to serve the people of the Langfjordbotn area since it was a long journey to the main parish church. The church cost about . By 1904, the congregation had grown, so the nave was enlarged and lengthed to add about 25% more seating. The building was

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d on 20 August 1891 by the Bishop

Johannes Skaar Johannes Nilssøn Skaar ( (also spelled ''Johannes Nilsson Skaar'')) (15 November 1828 – 13 December 1904) was a Norwegian bishop and hymnologist. Skaar was born in Øystese, Kvam, Norway in 1828. He received his cand.theol. degree in ...

. By the end of World War II, the church had been significantly looted and battered by the retreating German army which had used the building for their own purposes. The church was fixed up after the war. It wasn't until 1965, however, when the structural damage to the church was repaired.

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Langfjord kirke - panoramio.jpg, View from a distance Langfjord Church, facing the altar (2015).jpg, The altar

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