Hundvin Church ( no, Hundvin kyrkje) 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 ...

Alver Municipality Alver is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Nordhordland. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Knarvik. Other villages include Alversund, Alver, Isdalstø, Lindå ...

in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of

Hundvin Hundvin or Hundven is a village in Alver municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located along the Lurefjorden, about southeast of the village of Lindås Lindås is a former municipality in the Nordhordland district in the ...

, along the shore of the Lurefjorden. It is one of the three churches for the Lindås parish which is part of the Nordhordland prosti (

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 Bjørgvin The Diocese of Bjørgvin ( no, Bjørgvin bispedømme) is one of the 11 dioceses that make up the Church of Norway. It includes all of the churches located in the county of Vestland in Western Norway. The cathedral city is Bergen, Norway's second ...

. The white, wooden church was built 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 ...

design in 1936 using plans drawn up by the National Architecture Agency. The church seats about 290 people.

History

Historically, the people living on the east side of the Lurefjorden had to cross the fjord to get to the

Lygra Church Lygra Church ( no, Lygra kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located on the small island of Luro, Hordaland, Luro. It is one of the four churches for the Knarvik parish which i ...

. In 1884, a cemetery was built at Hundvin so that parishioners could be buried closer to their homes, without having to transport a body across the fjord by boat. Soon after, the people began asking for a chapel to be built by the cemetery. It wasn't until the mid-1930s that the parish was ready to build the church. The new building was designed by the National Architecture Agency. The church was

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d on 9 December 1936 by the Bishop Andreas Fleischer. Originally, it was an annex chapel within the

Lindås Church Lindås Church ( no, Lindås kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Lindås. It is one of the three churches for the Lindås parish which is part of th ...

parish. In 1990, a bathroom and storage area was built to the north and south sides of the church porch. In 1998, the chapel was upgraded to parish church status.

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