Norddal Church

Not to be confused with Nordal Church in Flora municipality, Norway.
For other churches named Dale Church, see Dale (disambiguation).
Norddal Church
Dale Church
Norddal kyrkje / Dale kyrkje

View of the church from the south
Norddal Church
Dale Church
Location in Møre og Romsdal
Norddal Church
Dale Church
Location in Møre og Romsdal
62°15′22″N 7°14′14″E / 62.2560°N 7.2371°E / 62.2560; 7.2371Coordinates: 62°15′22″N 7°14′14″E / 62.2560°N 7.2371°E / 62.2560; 7.2371
Location Norddal Municipality,
Møre og Romsdal
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Ole Larssen Døving
Completed 1782
Specifications
Capacity 300
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Norddal
Deanery Austre Sunnmøre
Diocese Diocese of Møre

Norddal Church (Norwegian: Norddal kyrkje), also known as Dale Church, is an octagonal parish church in Norddal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Norddal, on the south side of the Norddalsfjorden. The church owned by the municipality and it is part of the Norddal parish in the Austre Sunnmøre deanery in the Diocese of Møre.[1][2]

This log building was completed in 1782 and replaced a medieval stave church in the same place. The medieval stave church was relocated from Sylte on the north shore of Norddalsfjorden around 1620.[3] Four columns in the nave support the eight sided roof with a tower on top. Norddal Church is prototypical for the octagonal churches in Møre og Romsdal county and the Nordfjord district to the south.[4] The altarpiece was taken from the previous church, dates from around 1510, and resembles altarpieces produced by Bernt Notke in Lübeck.[5] There was no professional architect for the church, instead master builder Ole Larsen Døving designed the church after returning from a trip to Trondheim. The master builder probably used Hospitalskirken or possibly Bakke Church as models.[3]

The 40 victims of the 1934 Tafjorden landslide and subsequent tsunami are buried there.

References

  1. ↑ "Norddal kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  2. ↑ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2013-06-27.
  3. 1 2 Tafjord, Leonhard; Kleiva, Ivar (1976). Norddal Bygdebøker. IV: Grunn og gror. Kultursoge. Valldal. ISBN 9788271010348.
  4. ↑ Vreim, Halvor (1947). Norsk trearkitektur. Oslo: Gyldendal.
  5. ↑ "Norddal Church". Kulturnett.no. Retrieved 2013-03-24.
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