Strinda Church ( no, Strinda kirke, historically ''Moholt kirke'') is a

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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 ...

Trondheim Trondheim ( , , ; sma, Tråante), historically Kaupangen, Nidaros and Trondhjem (), is a city and municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. As of 2020, it had a population of 205,332, was the third most populous municipality in Norway, and ...

municipality in

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county,

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. It is located in the

Strinda Strinda is a former municipality in the old Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until its dissolution in 1964. The municipality encompassed the eastern part of what is now the municipality of Trondheim south and ea ...

area in the city of Trondheim. It is the church for the Strinda

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which is part of the

Strinda prosti This list of churches in Nidaros is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Nidaros which covers all of Trøndelag county in Norway. The list is divided into several sections, one for each deanery in the diocese. Administrati ...

(

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) in the

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. The white, wooden church was built in a

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design with a Neo-gothic style in 1900 using plans drawn up by the

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s Lars Solberg and Johan Christensen. The church seats about 300 people.

History

The church in Strinda was originally built in 1900 to be the new main church for Strinda municipality. The medieval Lade Church had held that position for a long time, but that church was too small for the parish. It was designed by the

s Lars Solberg and Johan Christensen. It was built for about by the carpenter O.A. Henriksen. The building was

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d on 18 October 1900. The church was built with a

design, but its interior is set up like that of 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 ...

due to the fairly short

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, hence everyone is sitting facing the same direction whereas in a traditional cruciform design, the people sitting in the transepts are facing each other and the

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is to their side. Due to a slightly weak construction, the church began creaking loudly during a storm and afterwards when it was windy you were hear it. Around 1922-1923, iron bars were threaded through the church to strengthen the structure and prevent the noise. In 1935, the building was painted a very dark brown color that almost looked black, and this was not well received by the congregation
photo of the dark color
. Just after World War II, the church was re-painted white once again.

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References

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History

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