Sengskroken Church () is a

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of the

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Karlsøy Municipality Karlsøy () is an island List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hansnes. Other villages include Dåfjord, Hessfjord, Karlsøya ( ...

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county,

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. It is located on the western coast of the island of

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(also known as Vannøya). It is an annex church for the Karlsøy

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which is part of the Tromsø domprosti (arch-

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) in the

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. The white, wooden church (originally it was a "chapel") was built in a

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style in 1962 by the

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Knut P. Bugge. The church seats about 225 people.

History

In 1955, a meeting of the local residents on the island of Vanna was held in regards to the need for a church on the island. Land for a chapel was donated by a widow named Petro Hansen. When the work was started, most of the groundwork was done on a voluntary basis. The drawing of the building was the same as for Billefjord Chapel in Finnmark. The actual construction work was carried out by Trygve Larsen, Einar Klingenberg, Johannes Karlsen, and Birger Johansen. The costs totaled . The new chapel was

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d on 2 September 1962 by the

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. In 2009, the classification of the chapel was upgraded to "church" status.

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