Ingøy Church ( no, Ingøy kirke) is a

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of the

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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, Slåtten, ...

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county,

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. It is located in the village of

Ingøy Ingøy or Inga is a small fishing village on the island of Ingøya in Måsøy Municipality, Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies on the northern coast of the island of Ingøya, facing the open Arctic Ocean. The village of Ingøy li ...

on the island of

Ingøya Ingøya ( sme, Fávle-Iččát) is an island on the edge of the Arctic Ocean in Måsøy Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The island lies just north of the island of Rolvsøya and west of the island of Hjelmsøya. The sparsely ...

. It is one of the churches for the Måsøy

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which is part of the Hammerfest prosti (

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) in the

Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland Nord-Hålogaland ( no, Nord-Hålogaland bispedømme) is a diocese in the Church of Norway. It covers the Church of Norway churches in Troms og Finnmark county as well as in the territory of Svalbard. The diocese is seated in the city of Trom ...

. Like most other churches in Finnmark, Ingøy church was burned down by the Germans during the evacuation of Finnmark in 1944. The new, white 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 ...

style in 1957 using plans drawn up by the

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Eyvind Moestue. The church seats about 120 people. The

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was rescued when the old church was burning, and it now hangs behind the altar in the church. The subject is Jesus and his disciples at the

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when Jesus calms the storm. The picture was painted by Christian Sinding Larsen in 1930.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1589, but the church was probably built during the 14th century. The first church was located on the island of

, about northwest of the present-day site of the church. By the early 1700s, the church was in poor condition. In 1709, the church was torn down and replaced with a new church that was completed in 1712 and

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d in 1714. By the mid-1700s, Ingøya's population had declined to just a few people and in 1747 the church in Ingøy was moved to

Måsøya Måsøya ( sme, Muosáidsuolu) is an island in Måsøy Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The island is located west of the large island of Magerøya and to the east of the islands of Hjelmsøya and Havøya. The Porsanger Penins ...

, where it was rebuilt as Måsøy Church. Ingøy had no church from 1747 until 1866 when a new church was constructed at Ingøy. This church was heavily damaged in a

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in the early 1880s and had it to be rebuilt in 1883. That church remained until it was burned down by the German forces when they retreated from Finnmark in 1944. The current church was built between 1956-1957.

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History

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