Lidar Church () is a

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of the

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in Øystre Slidre Municipality in

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county,

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. It is located in the village of

Skammestein Skammestein is a village in Øystre Slidre Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on a hillside overlooking the east shore of the lake Hedalsfjorden. The village of Beitostølen lies about to the northwest and the vill ...

. It is the church for the Lidar

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which is part of the

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(

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) in the

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. The white, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1932 using plans drawn up by the

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Ole Stein. The church seats about 200 people.

History

There was an old wooden

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at Lidar during the

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. It was likely located about to the southeast of the present church. The old stave church was closed and torn down around 1665. Some of the old materials from the church were reused elsewhere including in making a gate at the nearby

Hegge Stave Church Hegge Stave Church () is a 13th-century stave church in Norway. It is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Øystre Slidre Municipality in Innlandet county. It is located in the village of Hegge. It is the church for the Hegge parish which ...

. In the 1880s, work began on a new burial ground in Skammestein. In 1900, some money was allocated for the new cemetery and a plot of land was purchased. The cemetery was

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in the fall of 1902. Not long afterwards, people in the area began pushing for an

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to be built at the cemetery site. In 1919, the parish council approved the plan. The building was designed by architect Ole Stein and the lead builder was Halldor G. Skattebu. Construction of the new chapel took place in 1932. Lidar Chapel was

on 2 December 1932. Originally, the building was brown-colored. In 1956, the exterior was painted white. On 1 October 1996, the chapel was upgraded to the status of a

and it has been titled as Lidar Church since that date.

References

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History

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