Undheim Church ( no, Undheim kyrkje) is a

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of the

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Time Municipality Time is a municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the traditional district of Jæren. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Bryne. Some villages in the municipality include Kvernaland, Lyefjell, Mossige ...

Rogaland Rogaland () is a Counties of Norway, county in Western Norway, bordering the North Sea to the west and the counties of Vestland to the north, Vestfold og Telemark to the east and Agder to the east and southeast. In 2020, it had a population of 47 ...

county,

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. It is located in the village of

Undheim Undheim is a village in Time municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. The village is located in Jæren, about south of the village of Ålgård, about southeast of the town of Bryne, and about east of the village of Nærbø. The village of Mo ...

. It is the church for the Undheim

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which is part of the

Jæren prosti This list of churches in Rogaland is a list of the Church of Norway churches in Rogaland county, Norway. The churches are all part of the Diocese of Stavanger. The diocese is based at the Stavanger Cathedral in the city of Stavanger. The list ...

(

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) in the

Diocese of Stavanger The Diocese of Stavanger ( no, Stavanger bispedømme) is a diocese in the Church of Norway. It covers all of Rogaland county in western Norway. The cathedral city is Stavanger, where the Stavanger Cathedral is located. The bishop is Anne Li ...

. The white, concrete church was built in a

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style in 2001 using designs by the architecture firm: Link Arkitektur. The church seats about 256 people.

History

The original Undheim Church was built in 1921 in a

style by the

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Halvorsen. That church was built of wood and it had about 260 seats. That church caught fire and burned down on 10 July 1998. Its replacement was completed in 2001. The new church lies slightly to the north of where the old one was located. The new church was

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d on 9 December 2001.

References

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History

See also

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