Old Edøy Church

Old Edøy Church
Edøy gamle kirke

View of the church
Old Edøy Church
Location in Møre og Romsdal
Old Edøy Church
Location in Møre og Romsdal
63°17′08″N 8°07′53″E / 63.2856°N 8.1315°E / 63.2856; 8.1315Coordinates: 63°17′08″N 8°07′53″E / 63.2856°N 8.1315°E / 63.2856; 8.1315
Location Smøla Municipality, Møre og Romsdal
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Historic
Completed c. 1190
Specifications
Capacity 120
Materials Stone
Administration
Parish Edøy
Deanery Ytre Nordmøre prosti
Diocese Diocese of Møre

Old Edøy Church (Norwegian: Edøy gamle kirke) is a historic parish church in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located on the southwestern end of the small island of Edøya, just south of the larger island of Smøla. The church is part of the Edøy parish in the Ytre Nordmøre deanery in the Diocese of Møre.[1]

History

The old stone church was built around the year 1190. It has had numerous renovations over the years to enlarge it and repair it. After several hundred years of use, it was too small and old to continue as the main church for the parish, so it was decided to build a new Edøy Church. The new church would be built to the north, on the island of Smøla instead of the more isolated location of the old church on the small island of Edøya. After the new church was completed in 1885, the old church was not regularly used and in 1887 there was a fire and the church burned down. The ruins of the old church remained until after World War II, when in 1946-1947, the church was rebuilt in a historically-accurate manner and is now protected as a historic site.[1][2]

See also

References

  1. 1 2 "Edøy gamle kirke" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-04-07.
  2. ↑ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2013-04-07.



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