Ytre Rendal Church ( no, Ytre Rendal kirke) is a

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of the

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Rendalen Municipality Rendalen 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 Bergset. Other villages in the municipality include Hanestad, Otne ...

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

Otnes Otnes is a village in Rendalen Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The village is located along the lake Lomnessjøen, about north of the village of Åkre. The municipal centre of Bergset lies about to the north of Otnes. The village ha ...

. It is the church for the Ytre Rendal

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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 red, wooden church was built in an

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design in 1751 using plans drawn up by an unknown

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. The church seats about 180 people.

Jacob Breda Bull Jacob Breda Bull (28 March 1853 – 7 January 1930) was a Norwegian author, journalist and editor. Biography Jacob Bull was born at Rendalen in Hedmark, Norway. He was the son of parish priest Mathias Bull (1815–1876) and Henriette Margreth ...

is buried in the church graveyard.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1444, but the church was not new that year. The first church in Rendalen was probably a wooden

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that was located at Hornset, about northeast of the present church site. In 1670, the old church was torn down and a new replacement church was built about to the south in the village of

. This new church eventually fell into disrepair and around 1745, it was decided to build a new church. A new church was built about south of the previous church in Otnes. It was a

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church. Originally, the church exterior was unpainted. In 1857, the exterior was painted red. During a restoration in 1878, the church was painted white. In 1930, the church was painted red once again.

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