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Hafnarfjordur Free Church (Icelandic: ''Fríkirkjan í Hafnarfirði'') is a
church Church may refer to: Religion * Church (building), a building for Christian religious activities * Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination * Church service, a formalized period of Christian communal worship * Chris ...
in the Free Lutheran congregation of
Iceland Iceland ( is, Ísland; ) is a Nordic island country in the North Atlantic Ocean and in the Arctic Ocean. Iceland is the most sparsely populated country in Europe. Iceland's capital and largest city is Reykjavík, which (along with its s ...
, located in Hafnarfjordur. The church was founded on 22 April 1913.History of Hafnarfjordur Free Church
''(in Icelandic)''
It's Iceland's third largest religious body, after the Reykjavik Free Church and the
Church of Iceland The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Iceland ( is, Hin evangelíska lúterska kirkja), also called the National Church ( is, Þjóðkirkjan), is the officially established Christian church in Iceland. The church professes the Lutheran faith an ...
. Iceland - International Religious Freedom Report 2003
U.S. Department of State. Sr. Einar Eyjólfsson has been the church priest since 1984, accompanied by another priest, sr. Sigríður Kristín Helgadóttir, since 2000.


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Lutheranism in Iceland {{Iceland-church-stub