Storfosna Church ( no, Storfosna kirke) is a

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of the

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Ørland Ørland is a municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. Ørland is located at the southwestern tip of the Fosen peninsula at the northern shore of the mouth of Trondheimsfjord where the Stjørnfjorden arm begins. ...

municipality in

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county,

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. It is located on the island of

Storfosna Storfosna is a populated island in the municipality of Ørland in Trøndelag county, Norway. The island is located between the islands of Kråkvåg and Garten north of the mouth of the Trondheimsfjorden. The traditional district of Fosen is nam ...

. It is one of the churches for the Ørland

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which is part of the

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(

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) in the

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. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1913 using plans drawn up by the

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Johan Kunig. The church seats about 150 people. The church has about 12 scheduled Sunday

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s per year.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1239 in the saga ''

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''. It is believed that the church was built and

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d in the year 1236. The church is mentioned again in 1354 in written records. After that, however, there are no other records of the church and then church appears to have been closed and in ruins long before the 1700s. During the late-1700s, there are stories of a stone cellar being built on the island using old stones from a collapsed church. Around the year 1880, the people on the island of Storfosna requested their own cemetery be built. Permission was granted and one was built about west of the medieval church site on some donated land. In 1887, the people began asking for their own church building as well. A new church was built in 1913 and

d on 11 December 1913.

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