Eide Church ( no, Eide kyrkje) is a

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of the Church of Norway in

Hustadvika Municipality Hustadvika is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the traditional districts of Nordmøre and Romsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Elnesvågen. Other villages in the municipality ...

in Møre og Romsdal county,

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. It is located in the village of

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. It is the main church for the Eide

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which is part of the

Molde domprosti Molde () is a town and List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional district of Romsdal. It is located on the Romsdal Pen ...

(arch- deanery) in the

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. The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1871 using plans drawn up by the

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. The church seats about 250 people.

History

The people of the Eide area had historically attended the Kvernes Stave Church and more recently the Kornstad Church, but by the mid-1800s, they were desiring their own local church that they could attend without boating across a fjord. In 1871, a new church was built in

. The church was designed by

and the lead builder was Gustav O. Olsen. The church is strikingly similar to the nearby Kornstad Church which Nordan also designed. The new Eide Church was consecrated on either 22 August or 10 September 1871 (the sources are not clear). Regardless of the date, the Bishop Andreas Grimelund performed the consecration. Around the year 2014, the

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was enlarged to the west.

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History

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