Budal Church ( no, Budal Kirke) is a

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within

Midtre Gauldal Midtre Gauldal is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Støren. Other villages in the municipality include Singsås, Soknedal, Enodden, an ...

municipality in

Trøndelag Trøndelag (; sma, Trööndelage) is a county in the central part of Norway. It was created in 1687, then named Trondhjem County ( no, Trondhjems Amt); in 1804 the county was split into Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag by the King of Denmar ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of

Enodden Enodden is a village in the municipality of Midtre Gauldal in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the confluence of the rivers ''Bua'' and ''Ena'', about south of the village of Rognes. It is located in the Budal valley, about north ...

. It is the church for the Budal

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which is part of the

Gauldal prosti This list of churches in Nidaros is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Nidaros which covers all of Trøndelag county in Norway. The list is divided into several sections, one for each deanery in the diocese. Administra ...

(

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) in the

Diocese of Nidaros Nidaros is a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Norway. It covers Trøndelag county in Central Norway and its cathedral city is Trondheim, which houses the well-known Nidaros Cathedral. Since 10 September 2017, the Bishop of Nidaros is Herborg ...

. The red, wooden church was built in 1754 using plans drawn up by an unknown

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. The church was built in a Y-shaped design, which is quite rare in Norway. The church seats about 200 people.

History

The mountain valley of Budal was historically rather isolated from the rest of the parish. During the summer of 1752, the bishop requested a building permit from the government to construct a church in Budal. The permit was approved and the church was completed in 1754. It was

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d on 19 June 1754. It was built in a Y-shape and it is the most recently built of the 10 existing Y-shaped churches in Norway.

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Budal kirke.jpg Budal kirke-kyrkje (church built 1754). Midtre Gauldal, Trøndelag, Norway. Graveyard, snow. 2019-03-11 DSC07601.jpg Budal kirke-kyrkje (church built 1754). Midtre Gauldal, Trøndelag, Norway. Graveyard, snow. 2019-03-11 DSC07582.jpg Budal kirke-kyrkje (church built 1754). Midtre Gauldal, Trøndelag, Norway. Graveyard, snow. 2019-03-11 DSC07605.jpg Budal kirke-kyrkje (church built 1754). Midtre Gauldal, Trøndelag, Norway. Graveyard, snow. 2019-03-11 DSC07599.jpg

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