Storfjord Church ( no, Storfjord kirke) is a

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of the

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Storfjord Municipality Storfjord ( se, Omasvuotna ; fkv, Omasvuono) is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Troms og Finnmark Counties of Norway, county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Hatteng. Other villages in ...

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county,

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. It is located in the village of

Hatteng Hatteng ( se, Háhtta; fkv, Hattu) is the administrative centre of Storfjord Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. The village is located along the European route E06 highway at the southern end of the Storfjorden, Troms, Storfjorden ...

. It is the main church for the Storfjord

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which is part of the Nord-Troms 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 an

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in a

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design in 1952 using plans drawn up by the

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Bjarne Bystad Ellefsen. The church seats about 320 people.

History

The first church in Storfjord was built in 1917. It was a school house from 1911 that was renovated and expanded in 1917 to make it into a church. That building was located about northwest of the present church site. That building was jointly used as a school and a church for many years. After

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in 1952, the parish built a new, larger church, just to the southwest of the old church. The new church was

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d in 1952. Afterwards, the old building was solely used as a school.

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