Vingrom Church ( no, Vingrom kirke) is a

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of the Church of Norway in

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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

Vingrom Vingrom is a village in Lillehammer Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the lake Mjøsa, just north of the border with Gjøvik Municipality, and about south of the town of Lillehammer. The European route E6 ...

. It is the church for the Vingrom

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which is part of the

Sør-Gudbrandsdal prosti The list of churches in Hamar is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Hamar which includes all of Innlandet county (plus two municipalities in Viken (county), Viken county) in Norway. The list is divided into several sections ...

( deanery) in the Diocese of Hamar. The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in the

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in 1908 using plans drawn up by the

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s Fin Wollebæk and Heinrich Jürgensen. The church seats about 220 people.

History

At the start of the 20th century, the parish began planning for a new

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. The new chapel was approved and Fin Wollebæk and Heinrich Jürgensen were hired to design the new building. Ole Eriksen Lande was hired as the lead builder. The new chapel was a wooden long church with a shorter, narrower

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on the east end and a tower on the west end. The new chapel was consecrated on 21 October 1908. In 1958-1959, the church was extensively remodeled. The ceiling was lowered and vaulted, the walls were paneled, the columns were changed, the organ was moved to a new second floor gallery on the west side, and the stained glass windows were changed.

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led this renovation. Electric heating was installed in 1971. In 1990, the Vingrom chapel was separated from the large

Fåberg Church Fåberg Church ( no, Fåberg kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Lillehammer Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. It is located in the village of Fåberg. It is the church for the Fåberg parish which is part of the Sør-Gud ...

parish as a separate parish, and the chapel name was changed from Vingrom Chapel to Vingrom Church.

Vingrom parish

Gårdsnummer 1-36 were included in this parish. Gårdsnummer 16-20 are in what is called Døsgrenda which is actually the lower (southern) part of Saksumsdalen valley and are colored differently. The attached KML file shows the church location and the farm locations in Gnr/ Bnr format.

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History

Vingrom parish

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