Foldnes Church ( no, Foldnes kyrkje) is a
parish church
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of the
Church of Norway in
Øygarden Municipality
Øygarden is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is an island municipality located in the traditional district of Midhordland, stretching along the west coast of the county. The village of Straume is the administrative centre of the ...
in
Vestland
Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...
county,
Norway
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. It is located in the village of
Foldnes
Foldnes is a village in Øygarden municipality in Vestland county, Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion ...
on the island of
Litlesotra. It is one of the three churches for the Fjell
parish
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which is part of the
Vesthordland prosti (
deanery) in the
Diocese of Bjørgvin. The modern-looking wood and
leca church was built in a
rectangular
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design in 2001 using plans drawn up by the
architect
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Kolbjørn Jensen. The church seats about 700 people.
History
The new church at Foldnes was established in 2001. Planning for the church began in the 1990s. The architect, Kolbjørn Jensen, from the firm ''Signatur arkitekter'' was hired to design the building. The church was
consecrated on 22 April 2001. The church has been awarded a couple of architectural prizes: Fjell municipality's building prize in 2002 and the Bergen area masonry prize in 2003. A cemetery for the church was built about east of the church in 2012-2013.
See also
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List of churches in Bjørgvin
The list of churches in Bjørgvin is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Bjørgvin which includes all of Vestland county in Norway. The list is divided into several sections, one for each deanery (; headed by a provost) in ...
References
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Øygarden
Churches in Vestland
Rectangular churches in Norway
Concrete churches in Norway
21st-century Church of Norway church buildings
Churches completed in 2001
2001 establishments in Norway