Holøydalen Church ( no, Holøydalen kirke) is a

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of the

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Tolga Municipality Tolga is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Tolga. The municipality is bordered in the east by the municipality ...

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of

Øversjødalen Øversjødalen is a village in Tolga Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located at the northern end of the lake Langsjøen. The village of Tolga lies about to the southeast of the village of Tolga. The village of Hodalen lies about ...

. It is the church for the Holøydalen

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which is part of the Nord-Østerdal prosti (

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) in the

Diocese of Hamar The Diocese of Hamar ( no, Hamar Bispedømme) is a diocese within the Church of Norway. The Diocese of Hamar includes all of the churches in Innlandet county plus the churches in Lunner in Viken county. Administratively, the diocese is divided ...

. The brown, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1908 using plans drawn up by the

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Victor Nordan. The church seats about 130 people.

History

During the 1840s, planning for a chapel in Holøydalen began because the residents did not like the long journey to

Tolga Church Tolga Church ( no, Tolga kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tolga Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Tolga. It is the church for the Tolga parish which is part of the Nord-Østerdal prosti ...

. It took a long time before progress was made. In 1892, a cemetery was built just outside

. A small bell tower was built at the cemetery too. About 10 years later, planning began for a new chapel at the cemetery. Plans for the chapel were made by Victor Nordan. The new wooden building was

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on 8 July 1908. Originally, it was an annex chapel, but it was later upgraded to the status of

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