Solvang Church ( no, Solvang kirke) is a parish church 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 ...

in Tønsberg Municipality in Vestfold county, Norway. It is located in the city of Tønsberg. It is one of the churches for the "Tønsberg domkirke" parish which is part of the

Tønsberg domprosti This list of churches in Tunsberg is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Tunsberg in Norway. It includes all of the parishes in Buskerud and Vestfold counties. The diocese is based at the Tønsberg Cathedral in the city of T� ...

(

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 Tunsberg. The white, brick church was built in a

long church Church building in Norway began when Christianity was established there around the year 1000. The first buildings may have been post churches erected in the 10th or 11th century, but the evidence is inconclusive. For instance under Urnes Stave C ...

design in 1969 using plans drawn up by the architect Elisabet Fidjestøl. The church seats about 300 people.

History

During the late 1950s, residents of Tønsberg started asking for another church in the growing city. In 1955, the local provost advocated for the construction of a modern church and the local bishop did the same in 1959. In 1961, the architect Elisabet Fidjestøl was hired to design the new church. The process took a few years. The site selection was changed along the way, and the draft was reworked. Construction began in the autumn of 1967 and the new church was

consecrated Consecration is the solemn dedication to a special purpose or service. The word ''consecration'' literally means "association with the sacred". Persons, places, or things can be consecrated, and the term is used in various ways by different grou ...

on 9 March 1969. In 1988, an addition of a new congregational hall was built next the main building. In 2004, the nave was refurbished.

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{{use dmy dates, date=February 2024 Tønsberg Churches in Vestfold Long churches in Norway Brick churches in Norway 20th-century Church of Norway church buildings Churches completed in 1969 1969 establishments in Norway

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