Sandvær Chapel ( no, Sandvær bedehuskapell) is a

chapel A chapel is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several meanings. Firstly, smaller spaces inside a church that have their own altar are often called chapels; the Lady chapel is a common ty ...

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

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the ...

. It is located in the

Sandværet Sandværet is an island group in the municipality of Herøy in Nordland county, Norway. The islands are located about southwest of the municipal center of Silvalen and about west of the island of Husvær. The main populated islands in the g ...

islands. It is 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 ...

in the Herøy

parish A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese. A parish is under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of a priest, often termed a parish priest, who might be assisted by one o ...

which is part of the Nord-Helgeland prosti ( deanery) in the

Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland Sør-Hålogaland is a diocese in the Church of Norway. The Diocese covers the Lutheran Church of Norway churches located within Nordland county in Norway. The diocese is headquartered in the town of Bodø at Bodø Cathedral, the seat of the ...

. The wooden chapel was built in a long church style in 1947. The chapel seats about 70 people.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Sandvaer Chapel Herøy, Nordland Churches in Nordland Wooden churches in Norway 20th-century Church of Norway church buildings Churches completed in 1947 1947 establishments in Norway Long churches in Norway

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