Lebesby Church ( no, Lebesby kirke) is a

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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 ...

Lebesby Municipality Lebesby ( sme, Davvesiida and fkv, Lebespyy) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kjøllefjord. Other villages in the municipality include Ifjord, Kunes, Lebesby ...

Finnmark Finnmark (; se, Finnmárku ; fkv, Finmarku; fi, Ruija ; russian: Финнмарк) was a county in the northern part of Norway, and it is scheduled to become a county again in 2024. On 1 January 2020, Finnmark was merged with the neighbouri ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of Lebesby. It is one of the churches for the Lebesby

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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 Tromsø ...

. The brown, wooden church was built in a

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style in 1962, eighteen years after the old church (built in 1881) was burned down during the German withdrawal from Finnmark during

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. This church was designed by the

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Odd Borgrud Pedersen. The church seats about 170 people and it was

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d in 1962.

History

The first church built in Lebesby was in 1834. In 1881, the old church was torn down and replaced with a new church on the same site. In 1944, the church was burned down by the retreating German army at the end of

. In 1962, a new church was built on the same site to replace the previous building.

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