Havøysund Church ( no, Havøysund kirke) is a
parish church of the
Church of Norway
The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church b ...
in
Måsøy Municipality
Måsøy ( sme, Muosát; fkv, Moseija) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Havøysund. Other villages include Bakfjord, Gunnarnes, Ingøy, Måsøy, Slått ...
in
Troms og Finnmark county,
Norway. It is located in the village of
Havøysund
Havøysund ( sme, Ávanuorri) is the administrative centre of the Måsøy Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located on the small island of Havøya, but is connected to the mainland by the Havøysund Bridge. The vi ...
on the island of
Havøya
Havøya ( sme, Ávvá) is an island in Måsøy Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The island lies just off the coast of the Porsanger Peninsula with the island of Hjelmsøya to the north, Måsøya to the east, and Rolvsøya to ...
. It is one of the churches for the Måsøy
parish which is part of the
Hammerfest prosti
Hammerfest (; sme, Hámmerfeasta ) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. Hammerfest is the northernmost town in the world with more than 10,000 inhabitants. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Hammerfe ...
(
deanery
A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residenc ...
) in the
Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland.
Like most other churches in Finnmark, Havøysund church was burned down by the Germans during the
evacuation of Finnmark in 1944. The new church was built of whitewashed concrete and dark wooden timbers in a
long church
Church building in Norway began when Christianity was established there around the year 1000. The first buildings may have been post churches erected in the 10th or 11th century, but the evidence is inconclusive. For instance under Urnes Stave C ...
style in 1960 using plans drawn up by the
architect Esben Poulsson. The altarpiece and pulpit decoration were painted by the artist
Terje Grøstad. The church seats about 300 people.
Media gallery
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See also
*
List of churches in Nord-Hålogaland
References
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Måsøy
Churches in Finnmark
20th-century Church of Norway church buildings
Churches completed in 1960
1960 establishments in Norway
Long churches in Norway
Concrete churches in Norway