Mariendal Church () is a church in the

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district of

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History

Mariendal parish was disjoined from that of St. Thomas' in 1905 when the owners of the Mariendal estate, Niels and Thora Josephsen, donated the building site and most of the funds needed for constructing the church and the parish hall. The street name ''Nitivej'' is a concentration of the couple's initials, "NJTJ". The Copenhagen Church Foundation erected a temporary church in coconut coir, a mixture of fibers from coconut and plaster, which was moved to a new church project in 1908.

Architecture

The present Mariendal Church is built to a

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design. It stands on a granite plinth and a

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and a

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dominate the facade.

Interior

The

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ed church room has a carved choir pulpit and wooden galleries in

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style on three sides. In a

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under the choir rest the remains of Niels and Thora Josephsen.

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's original altarpiece has been integrated in a new decoration of the church's choir which was carried out in 1988 by artist

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. The font by

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is in granite with bronze-plate. The altar silver is endowed with jewels from Thora Josephsen's personal jewellery.

References

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