Søreide Church ( no, Søreide 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 ...

Bergen Municipality Bergen (), historically Bjørgvin, is a city and municipality in Vestland county on the west coast of Norway. , its population is roughly 285,900. Bergen is the second-largest city in Norway. The municipality covers and is on the peninsula o ...

in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the Søreidegrenda neighborhood in the city of Bergen. It is the church for the Søreide parish which is part of the Fana prosti (

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 Bjørgvin The Diocese of Bjørgvin ( no, Bjørgvin bispedømme) is one of the 11 dioceses that make up the Church of Norway. It includes all of the churches located in the county of Vestland in Western Norway. The cathedral city is Bergen, Norway's second ...

. The white, wooden church was built in a fan-shaped style in 1973 using designs by the architect Helge Hjertholm. The church seats about 300 people, although by moving some folding walls, it can expand to fit an additional 300 people.

History

Approval for building a new church in Søreide was granted in 1968. The parish hired the architect Helge Hjertholm and his employees Jostein Lynghjem and Per Oeding to design the church. The foundation stone was laid on 25 October 1972 and construction took place in 1972-1973. The church does not have a traditional

altarpiece An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...

, but above the altar hangs a pendant called "cross symbol" made by visual artist and theologian Hein Heinsen. The church is also decorated with four large murals by the visual artist Bjørg Hausle Bondevik. 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 16 December 1973.

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History

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