Sykkylven Church () is a

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of the

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Sykkylven Municipality Sykkylven is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Sunnmøre Districts of Norway, region. The administrative centre is the village of Aure, Sykkylven, Aure. Othe ...

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county,

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. It is located in the village of Aure. It is the church for the Sykkylven

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which is part of the Nordre Sunnmøre prosti (

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) in the Diocese of Møre. The red brick church was built in a

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design in 1990 using plans drawn up by the

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Oskar Norderval. The church seats about 850 people.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to 1416, but the church was not new that year. The first church here was a wooden

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that was likely built around the year 1325. (Before this time, there may have been a small farm chapel on the site from the year 1100 until the early 1300s.) The church was located about north of the present church site. In 1705, the old stave church was struck by

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and it burned to the ground. A new

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building was built on the same site to replace the older building that burned. A new church was built just to the south of the old one in early 1883. The church was designed by Johan Digre. Work on the new church began in early 1882 and it was completed in 1883. The new building was

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d on 10 July 1883. It was a relatively large wooden

with tar-covered exterior siding. In the fall of 1883, the old church was torn down. The interior of the building was renovated and redecorated significantly in the 1930s and 1940s. In 1968–1969, the church was renovated and expanded. The church was extended further to the west so that it could accommodate nearly 1,000 people inside. The exterior was painted white after the renovation. The church was re-consecrated on 17 August 1969. On 2 February 1983, the 100-year-old church burned down. Many years passed before a new church was constructed. In 1990, the new church was finally completed. It was built about to the south of the old church site, just outside of the church cemetery. The church was designed by Oskar Norderval and it is a much more modern building that the previous ones, particularly the roof. The new church was

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on 15 April 1990 by the Bishop Ole Nordhaug.

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Sykkylven kirke.jpg, Present church Sykkylven nye kirke alterdelen.jpg, Altar Aure, Sykkylven - no-nb digifoto 20151105 00141 NB MIT FNR 06572 (cropped).jpg, View of the old church (1883-1983)

References

{{Authority control Sykkylven Churches in Møre og Romsdal Long churches in Norway Brick churches in Norway 20th-century Church of Norway church buildings Churches completed in 1990 14th-century establishments in Norway

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