Lidar Church ( no, Lidar kyrkje) is a

parish church A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish. In many parts of the world, especially in rural areas, the parish church may play a significant role in community activities, ...

of the Church of Norway in Øystre Slidre Municipality in

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of

Skammestein Skammestein is a village in Øystre Slidre Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located on a hillside overlooking the east shore of the lake Hedalsfjorden. The village of Beitostølen lies about to the northwest and the vill ...

. It is the church for the Lidar

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which is part of the

Valdres prosti The list of churches in Hamar is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Hamar which includes all of Innlandet county (plus two municipalities in Viken (county), Viken county) in Norway. The list is divided into several sections ...

( deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar. The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1932 using plans drawn up by the

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Ole Stein. The church seats about 200 people.

History

There was an old wooden

stave church A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe. The name derives from the building's structure of post and lintel construction, a type of timber framing where the load-bearing ore-pine posts ar ...

at Lidar during the

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. It was likely located about to the southeast of the present church. The old stave church was closed and torn down around 1665. Some of the old materials from the church were reused elsewhere including in making a gate at the nearby Hegge Stave Church. In the 1880s, work began on a new burial ground in Skammestein. In 1900, some money was allocated for the new cemetery and a plot of land was purchased. The cemetery was consecrated in the fall of 1902. Not long afterwards, people in the area began pushing for an

annex chapel A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently. Often a chapel of ease is deliberately bu ...

to be built at the cemetery site. In 1919, the parish council approved the plan. The building was designed by architect Ole Stein and the lead builder was Halldor G. Skattebu. Construction of the new chapel took place in 1932. Lidar Chapel was consecrated on 2 December 1932. Originally, the building was brown-colored. In 1956, the exterior was painted white. On 1 October 1996, the chapel was upgraded to the status of a

and it has been titled as Lidar Church since that date.

References

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History

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