Hundvåkøy Church ( no, Hundvåkøy kirke) is an annex chapel 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 ...

Austevoll Municipality Austevoll is a municipality and an archipelago in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Midthordland in Western Norway. The administrative centre is the village of Storebø on the island of Huftarøy. Other vill ...

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

Austevollshella Austevollshella or Austevoll is a village in Austevoll municipality, Norway. Austevollshella is located on the southeastern coast of the island of Hundvåko. The Austevoll Bridge, which connects Hundvåko and Huftarøy islands, is located at Aus ...

on the island of Hundvåko. It is one of the five churches for the Austevoll parish which is part of the Fana 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, concrete and wood chapel 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 1990 using plans drawn up by the architectural firm ''Planconsult'' based in

Storebø Storebø is the administrative centre and largest village in Austevoll municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the northern part of the island of Huftarøy, just south of the village of Birkeland and northwest of the v ...

. The chapel seats about 220 people.

History

Austevoll Church was located on the island of Hundvåko for over 200 years before it was moved to

on a nearby island in 1891. The people living at the old church site were not happy about losing their local church. In the 1960s, planning began to build an annex chapel at the site of the old church. After lots of planning and fundraising, work on the new chapel began in 1989. The architectural firm ''Planconsult A/S'' was hired to design the new chapel. Nearly 100 years later, in 1990, a new chapel was completed on the old church site on Hundvåko.

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History

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