Os Church ( no, Os kirke) is a

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of the

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in Os Municipality in

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county,

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. It is located in the village of

Os i Østerdalen Os or Os i Østerdalen is the administrative centre of Os Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the upper part of the river Glåma, about northeast of the village of Tolga and about southwest of the town of R� ...

. It is the church for the Os

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which is part of the

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(

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) in the

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. The yellow, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1862 using plans drawn up by the

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. The church seats about 350 people.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the 1570s, but the church was not new that year. The first church in Os was a small, wooden church that may have been built during the 16th century. Historically, the Os area was part of the In 1638, the church received a new

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. In 1703, the old church was torn down and a new, wooden

church was built on the same site. The new church was

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on 2 February 1704 by Rev. Hannibal Knutsen Hammer. Apparently, the

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of the new church was made from part of the old church. By the 1860s, the old church was too small for the parish, so plans were made to replace it. The last service in the old church was held on Sunday, 16 March 1862, and the next day the furniture and loose parts such as windows, doors, and the like, were sold at auction. The church was then torn down and work on a new church began soon after. The new building was designed by

and the lead builder was Jon Eriksen Berg. It was a wooden

building and it was

on 30 September 1862. In 1940, the church had a large fire and after

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, plans were made to repair the church. A major reconstruction project took place during 1952-1954. The church got a new roof in 1980-1982. From 2010-2012, the church underwent a major renovation again.

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