Skarsvåg Church ( no, Skarsvåg kirke) is a

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of the

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Nordkapp Municipality ), North Cape, Norway, other uses, North Cape (disambiguation) Nordkapp ( en, North Cape; sme, Davvinjárga or ; fkv, Kappa or ) is a municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of ...

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county,

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. It is located in the village of

Skarsvåg Skarsvåg is a village in Nordkapp Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village lies along the northern coast of the island of Magerøya, and it claims the distinction of being the world's northernmost fishing village. The local ...

on the northern end of the island of

Magerøya Magerøya ( sme, Máhkarávju) is a large island in Troms og Finnmark county, in the extreme northern part of Norway. The island lies along the Barents Sea in Nordkapp Municipality, just north of the Porsanger Peninsula. The mouth of Porsangerfj ...

. It is an

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for the Nordkapp

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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 white, wooden church was built in a

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style in 1961 using plans drawn up by the

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Rolf Harlew Jenssen. The church seats about 60 people.

History

The first mention of the church in existing historical records was in 1589, but that was not the year the church was built. That medieval church was located near the mouth of the fjord at Lille Skarsvåg, about northeast of the present site of the church. In 1748, the church was torn down. Many years later, a new Skarsvåg Chapel was built in the village of Skarsvåg, at the innermost part of the fjord, about southwest of the medieval church site. The new chapel was

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d on 6 August 1961 by the Bishop

Alf Wiig Alf Kristian Theodor Wiig (24 August 1891 – 10 July 1974) was a Norwegian bishop in the Church of Norway. Wiig was born in Kristiansund, Norway. He served as vicar in Karasjok from 1923 to 1934 and in Sortland from 1934 to 1945. He was then ...

. The building was called Skarsvåg Chapel until 1999 when it was renamed as a "church".

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