Lundersæter Church () is a

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of the

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Kongsvinger Municipality Kongsvinger () is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Glåmdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Kongsvinger. Other settlements in the municipality include Aust ...

Innlandet Innlandet is a Counties of Norway, county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (Jevnaker Municipality and Lunner Municipality were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken ( ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of

Lundersæter Lundersæter is a village in Kongsvinger Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located in the Finnskogen Finnskogen ("Forest of the Finns") is an area of Norway and Sweden situated in the counties of Innlandet and Värmland r ...

. It is one of the churches for the Brandval

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which is part of the

Solør, Vinger og Odal prosti The list of churches in Hamar is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Hamar in Norway. It includes all of the parishes in Innlandet county plus the parishes in Lunner Municipality in Akershus county. The diocese is based at th ...

(

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) in the

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. The white, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1868 using plans drawn up by the

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Ole Bergqvist. The church seats about 160 people.

History

Planning for a new chapel in the Brandval Finnskog area began in the 1860s. Ole Bergqvist was hired to design and build the new chapel. It was a wooden

building with a small tower on the roof of the

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. There was a small

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on the east end of the

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. It was constructed in 1868 and

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on 2 December 1868. In 1923, interior wall panels were added to cover up the log walls. In 1948–1949, electric lights and power were added into the building. In 1954, a large new tower and

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were added on the west end of the nave. The old tower was removed at this time. Ola B. Aasness designed this addition to the building and Mentz Sæter was the lead builder for the project. In 1962–63, the chapel was thoroughly renovated inside and the nave got its current look both in terms of color and in terms of decor. Originally, the benches had been narrow and steep in the back, and there had been room for 250 people. The number of seats today is 160.

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Lundersæter altertavle.JPG, View of the interior altar. Lundersæter gmlkrk.jpg, View of the church before the 1954 tower was built.

References

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