Voie Church ( no, Voie kirke) is a

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of the

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Kristiansand Municipality Kristiansand is a seaside resort city and municipality in Agder county, Norway. The city is the fifth-largest and the municipality the sixth-largest in Norway, with a population of around 112,000 as of January 2020, following the incorporation ...

Agder Agder is a county (''fylke'') and traditional region in the southern part of Norway. The county was established on 1 January 2020, when the old Vest-Agder and Aust-Agder counties were merged. Since the early 1900s, the term Sørlandet ("south ...

county,

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. It is located in the Møvik neighborhood in the district of

Voiebyen Voiebyen is a district in the city of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway. The district has a population of about 6,000 people in 2014 and it is a part of the borough of Vågsbygd in the southwestern part of the city. The district of Vågsbygd li ...

in the borough of

Vågsbygd Vågsbygd is a borough and disrict in the city of Kristiansand which lies in the municipality of Kristiansand in Agder county, Norway. It is the largest borough and district in Kristiansand. Until 1965, Vågsbygd was a part of Oddernes municipal ...

in the city of Kristiansand. It is the church for the Voie

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which is part of the Kristiansand domprosti (arch-

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) in the

Diocese of Agder og Telemark The Diocese of Agder og Telemark ( no, Agder og Telemark bispedømme) is a diocese of the Church of Norway, covering all of Agder county and most of Vestfold og Telemark county in Norway. The cathedral city is Kristiansand, Norway's fifth larges ...

. The red, brick church was built in a fan-shaped design in 1990 using plans drawn up by the

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Arild Lauvland. The church seats about 300 people, but it can be expanded to about 500 people.

History

Voie parish was separated from Vågsbygd parish in 1978. The foundation stone was laid on 8 May 1982. The first construction phase was to complete a temporary church on the site and this was

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d on 12 December 1982. By 1989, enough funds had been raised to begin the second construction phase which was to construct the permanent (much larger) church. The new building was

d on 10 June 1990. In 2012, the church was expanded to include more office space as well as a new parking area to the east and a new cemetery to the south.

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