Drevsjø Church ( no, Drevsjø kirke) is a

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of the

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Engerdal Municipality Engerdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Engerdal. Other villages in the municipality include Drevsjø, ...

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of

Drevsjø Drevsjø is a village in Engerdal municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located about north of the village of Engerdal and about southeast of the village of Sorken. The village takes its name from the lake Drevsjø which lies near the ...

. It is the church for the Drevsjø

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which is part of the

Sør-Østerdal prosti The list of churches in Hamar is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Hamar which includes all of Innlandet county (plus two municipalities in Viken county) in Norway. The list is divided into several sections, one for eac ...

(

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) in the

Diocese of Hamar The Diocese of Hamar ( no, Hamar Bispedømme) is a diocese within the Church of Norway. The Diocese of Hamar includes all of the churches in Innlandet county plus the churches in Lunner in Viken county. Administratively, the diocese is divided ...

. The white, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1847 using plans drawn up by an unknown

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. The church seats about 250 people.

History

In the 1840s, increasing populations in the Drevsjø area led to the construction of a new

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in the village. The chapel was

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in 1847. Initially, two services were held in the chapel each year. In 1886–1887, the chapel was enlarged by adding a

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with a tower,

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, and

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References

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History

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