Tejn Church is located at
Tejn on the north-east coast of the Danish island of
Bornholm
Bornholm () is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of the rest of Denmark, south of Sweden, northeast of Germany and north of Poland.
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. The most recent of the island's churches, it was built in 1940 to a
Functionalist design by Emanuel Grauslund (1901-1951). It is a simple, whitewashed building on a granite base with rectangular, small-paned windows and a red-tiled roof.
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Inside, the distinctive font
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consists of loosely connected granite blocks. The organ from 1980 was built by Finn Krohn.[
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See also
* List of churches on Bornholm
References
Churches in Bornholm
Churches completed in 1940
Functionalist architecture
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