Tørberget Church ( no, Tørberget kirke) is a

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of the

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Trysil Municipality Trysil is a municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Østerdalen. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Innbygda. Other villages in the municipality include Nybergsund, Ø ...

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

Tørberget Tørberget is a small village in Trysil municipality, Innlandet county, Norway. It is the birthplace of Olympian Hallgeir Brenden. The village is located along the Norwegian National Road 25, about southwest of the villages of Nybergsund and Innb ...

. It is the church for the Tørberget

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which is part of the

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(

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) in the

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. The brown, wooden church was built in a

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design in 1933 using plans drawn up by the

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. The church seats about 150 people.

History

Planning for a new church in Tørberget began in the 1920s. A cemetery was established on the site on 3 August 1924. Soon after, people began pushing for a chapel to be built on the same site. The designs were drawn up by the , the governmental building office which oversaw construction projects. The lead builders were Harald Brænd and Gj. Floden. Originally designed to be an

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, the building was

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on 19 March 1933 with

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and

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present. The event was marked with a plaque in front of the

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with the throne and the letters O and M on top. The building underwent a major restoration in 1977. In 1996, the chapel was upgraded to

status and at that time it was renamed as a church.

References

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History

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