Kjerringøy Church ( no, Kjerringøy kirke) is a

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of the Church of Norway in Bodø Municipality in Nordland county,

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. It is located in the village of

Kjerringøy Kjerringøy is a village in Bodø Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. The village is located about north of the town of Bodø, along the Karlsøyfjorden, just south of the entrance to the Folda fjord. The Kjerringøy Church is located ...

. It is one of the two churches for the ''Kjerringøy og Rønvik''

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which is part of the

Bodø domprosti Bodø (; smj, Bådåddjo, sv, Bodö) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Bodø (which is also the capital of Nordland co ...

( deanery) in the

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. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1883 using plans drawn up by the

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J. E. Olsen. The church seats about 300 people and it has one

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every three weeks.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1589, but the church was not built that year. It may have been built in the 14th or 15th century. In 1763, records show that an old church building was torn down in Kjerringøy and those records show that that church had been built by the residents from "

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". After that, a new timber church was built that had a long church design with a

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and sacristy in the east. There is a
existing photograph
of this building from around 1860. The

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of this building measured approximately and it had a small tower on the roof on the west end. In 1883, the church was torn down and replaced with the present building.

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