Storekalsøy Chapel ( no, Storekalsøy kapell or ) is a parish church of the

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in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of

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on the island of

Storekalsøy Storekalsøy or Stora Kalsøy is an island in Austevoll municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The island lies northwest of the larger island of Hundvåko and just east of the Marstein Lighthouse. The northern part of the island is very roc ...

in the northwestern part of the municipality. It is one of the five churches for the Austevoll parish which is part of the Fana prosti (

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) in the

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. The brown, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1975 using plans drawn up by the architect Einar Vaardal-Lunde from Bergen. The church seats about 250 people.

History

The people of Storekalsøy island petitioned for a chapel on the island in the 1880s. In 1889, the parish decided to move the centrally located

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to a new site further south and that a new annex chapel would be built on Storekalsøy in the north. The new chapel was designed by

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from the nearby city of Bergen. The new building had a

design, based on the plans for the nearby Austevoll Church. The church was built in 1892 and it was

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on 30 June 1892. That chapel burned down on 18 September 1974. A new chapel was immediately commissioned and it was completed in 1975 on a site a little east of the old chapel. The new, brown, wooden church was designed by Einar Vaardal-Lunde and it was consecrated on 19 December 1976. The church seats about 250 people.

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History

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