Kausland Church ( no, Kausland kyrkje) is a

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of the

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Øygarden Municipality Øygarden is a Municipalities of Norway, municipality in Vestland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is an island municipality located in the Districts of Norway, traditional district of Midhordland, stretching along the west coast of the cou ...

Vestland Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020. The county is located in Western Norway and it is centred around the city of Bergen, Norway's second largest city. The administrative centre of the county is the city of Bergen, where t ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of

Kausland Kausland is a village in Øygarden municipality in Vestland county, Norway. The village is located on the southern part of the island of Sotra Sotra or Store Sotra is the name of a large island in Øygarden Municipality in Vestland county, No ...

. It is one of the two churches in the Sund

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which is part of the Vesthordland 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

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design in 1881 using plans drawn up by the

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Conrad Fredrik von der Lippe Conrad Fredrik "Fritz" von der Lippe (8 October 1833 – 1901) was a Norwegian architect. He was born at Christianssand (now Kristiansand) in Vest-Agder, Norway. He was a son of bishop Jacob von der Lippe, a grandfather of the three brother ...

. The church seats about 385 people.

History

When a new

Sund Church Sund Church ( no, Sund kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Øygarden Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Klokkarvik. It is the church for the Sund parish which is part of the Vesthordland pr ...

was built in the 1870s, the question of building a chapel in Kausland arose. The people of that area had a long journey to get to the church in Sund, so in 1877, the parish agreed to build an annex chapel in Kausland for the western part of the parish. Drawings were prepared by architect

and Askild Aase was hired as the lead builder. Construction of the new chapel took place in 1881. The building consisted of a

nave The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...

and a smaller, narrower

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on the east end. There was a small

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extension on the east end of the chancel. On the west end of the nave was a tower. The steeple on top of the tower dates back to 1674. It originally sat on top of the old

, which was torn down in 1878 in order to build a new church there. The steeple was saved and moved to Kausland during the construction of this chapel in 1881. The new chapel was

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d on 24 August 1881. In 1957, the municipal council decided to expand the chapel and upgrade it to the status of a church. The renovation and expansion took place according to plans prepared by architect Ole Halvorsen. The project enlarged the nave by adding a one-story addition surrounding the nave. A

was built on the north and the south side of the original chancel and the old sacristy on the east end was incorporated into the chancel. The remodeling was completed in 1963.

References

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History

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