Gløshaug Church ( no, Gløshaug kirke) is a

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of the

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Grong ( sma, Kråangke) is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Medjå (sometimes called ''Grong'' also). Other villages in the municipality inc ...

municipality in

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county,

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. It is located in the village of

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. It is one of the two churches for the Harran

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which is part of the

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(

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) in the

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. The red, wooden

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was built in a

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style in 1689. The church seats about 100 people.

History

The site of Gløshaug Church has been used all the way back to around the year 1160. It originally was a

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church according to Grankvist. A manuscript from 1597 () called the church , meaning St. Olaf's Church of Harran. St. Olaf is the patron saint of Norway. The first church building on this site was built around 1170, and it was restored in 1433 and again in 1510. In 1689, the old church had reached the point where it was in very poor shape, so it was torn down and replaced with a new

, which still stands today. St. Olaf's Church was for centuries the main church for all of the people that lived in the upper inner part of

Namdalen Namdalen ( sma, Nååmesjevuemie) is a Districts of Norway, traditional district in the central part of Norway, consisting of the municipalities Namsos, Grong, Overhalla, Røyrvik, Nærøysund, Høylandet, Flatanger, Lierne, Leka, Norway, Leka, ...

(the old "

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" parish). In the 1800s and 1900s, several

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(some of those were noblemen) owned houses along the river at Gartland, where they lived during their stay in Grong. One was

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, a man of considerable wealth. He bought two Gartland farms and in 1873, he bought the old Gløshaug Church to prevent it from being torn down.

municipality wanted to tear down the old church and build a new church for Harran, but instead Mr. Guest purchased it and restored it. Meanwhile, the municipality built the new

Harran Church Harran Church ( no, Harran kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Grong municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Harran. It is the main church for the Harran parish which is part of the Namdal prosti ...

in 1874 at Fiskum in the nearby village of

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, about to the northeast. Mr. Guest's widow sold the church in 1908 to a local farmer who in turn in 1910 gave the church to the municipality.

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