Randesund Church () is a

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of the

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county,

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. It is located in the Frikstad neighborhood in the

Randesund Randesund is a village and district within the city of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway. The district is located within the borough of Oddernes along the southern coastline between the two fjords Kvåsefjorden and Topdalsfjorden and south of ...

district in the borough of

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inside the city of Kristiansand. It is one of the churches for the Randesund

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which is part of the Kristiansand domprosti (arch-

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) in the

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. The white, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1864 using plans drawn up by the

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. The church seats about 450 people. The church was

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d on 28 October 1864 by the

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. The church is surrounded by a

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