Tingnes Church ( no, Tingnes kirke) is a

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of the

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Nord-Aurdal Municipality Nord-Aurdal is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Valdres. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town Fagernes. Other urban centres in Nord-Aurdal include the villages of Aurda ...

Innlandet Innlandet is a county in Norway. It was created on 1 January 2020 with the merger of the old counties of Oppland and Hedmark (the municipalities of Jevnaker and Lunner were transferred to the neighboring county of Viken on the same date). The ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of

Fagernes is a town in Nord-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The town is the administrative centre of the municipality as well as the largest urban/commercial centre for the Valdres region. It is located just northwest of the village of ...

. It is the church for the Tingnes

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which is part of the

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(

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) in the

Diocese of Hamar The Diocese of Hamar ( no, Hamar Bispedømme) is a diocese within the Church of Norway. The Diocese of Hamar includes all of the churches in Innlandet county plus the churches in Lunner in Viken county. Administratively, the diocese is divided ...

. The brown, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1972 using plans drawn up by the

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Karl Stenersen. The church seats about 260 people.

History

After

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, planning began for a new chapel and cemetery in

. A new cemetery at Skogajordet was established in 1967. The cemetery is relatively hilly and surrounded by a picket fence. The architect Karl Stenersen was commissioned to design the new chapel in 1969 and made two drafts: a traditional church building and a more modern hexagonal building. The parish chose the modern one. The basic shape of the chapel is like an equilateral triangle where the tips are cut off, making it a hexagon shape. The roof construction looks like a large church spire. The foundation stone was laid in 1971, and the chapel (as it was then titled) was built by builder Bjarne Sanne and

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on 10 September 1972. The chapel was built with the main

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on the main level and the lower floor was furnished for various other functions. Initially, the building was called Fagernes Chapel and it was an

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under the main

Skrautvål Church Skrautvål Church ( no, Skrautvål kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Nord-Aurdal Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Skrautvål. It is the church for the Skrautvål parish which is part of ...

. There was local opposition to the name, however. Locally, the people referred to it as the "Kyrkja på Skogajordet" (Church at Skogajordet) for a number of years. The municipality proposed "Fagernes and Leira chapel", but that was not accepted by the Diocese. In 1978, the name officially became Tingnes Chapel. In 1998, the chapel was upgraded to a

status so it was renamed "Tingnes Church".

References

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History

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