Ringvassøy Church ( no, Ringvassøy 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 ...

Karlsøy Municipality Karlsøy ( sme, Gálssa suohkan) is an island municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hansnes. Other villages include Dåfjord, Hessfjord, Karlsøya, Torsvåg, Vannv� ...

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county,

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. It is located in the village of Hansnes on the island of Ringvassøya. It is the main church for the Karlsøy

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which is part of the Tromsø domprosti (arch-

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 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 Trom ...

History

In 1970, when the

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of Karlsøy Municipality was moved from the small island of Karlsøya to the village of Hansnes (on Ringvassøya island), the discussion began about building a church in Hansnes to be the new main church for the municipality. The white,

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church building was completed in 1977 and it seats about 400 people. The church has a fan-shaped design. The church was

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d on 12 June 1977 by the

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Kristen Kyrre Bremer Kristen Kyrre Bremer (12 July 1925 – 16 May 2013) was a Norwegian theologian and bishop in the Church of Norway. Education and career Bremer was born in Tana, Norway in 1925. Bremer received his cand.theol. degree in 1953 in the Faculty of T ...

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Ringvassøy kirke p.jpg Ringvassøy kirke (church) Hansnes, Karlsøy kommune, Troms, Norway Architect Nils Toft 1977 (Blue sky, snow on ground, early spring) 2019-05-06 7889.jpg Ringvassøy kirke (church) Hansnes, Karlsøy kommune, Troms, Norway Architect Nils Toft 1977 (Blue sky, snow on ground, early spring) 2019-05-06 7886.jpg Ringvassøy kirke (church) Hansnes, Karlsøy kommune, Troms, Norway Architect Nils Toft 1977 (Blue sky, snow on ground, early spring) 2019-05-06 7868.jpg Ringvassøy kirke (church) Hansnes, Karlsøy kommune, Troms Architect Nils Toft 1977 (Blue sky, snow on ground, early spring) View towards Langsundet Reinøya 2019-05-06 distorted panoramic 8169.jpg Ringvassøy kirke (church) Hansnes, Karlsøy kommune, Troms, Norway Architect Nils Toft 1977 (Blue sky, snow on ground, early spring) 2019-05-06 7880.jpg

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