Ellingsøy Church () is a

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of the

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Ålesund Municipality Ålesund (, sometimes spelled Aalesund in English) is a municipality in Møre og Romsdal County, Norway. It is part of the traditional district of Sunnmøre and the centre of the Ålesund Region. The town of Ålesund is the administrative ce ...

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county,

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. It is located on the island of

Ellingsøya Ellingsøya is a island in Ålesund Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. With an area of , Ellingsøya is the second largest island in the municipality after Uksenøya. The island is located northeast of the town of Ålesund, north o ...

, just west of the village of Myklebost. It is the church for the Ellingsøy

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which is part of the Nordre Sunnmøre prosti (

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) in the

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. The brick church was built in a fan-shaped design in 1990 using plans drawn up by the

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Lauritz Nes. The church seats about 380 people.

History

The brick church was built in 1990 by the architect Lauritz Nes and it originally was a chapel for the parish. In 1998, the chapel was expanded by the

Oskar Norderval and it was

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d as a church on 30 August 1998.

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History

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