Isaiah Church ( da, Esajas Kirke) is a
Lutheran
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church in the
Østerbro
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district of
Copenhagen
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Denmark
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History
The Isaiah Church is located in Østervold Parish which was disjoined from
St. James' Parish in 1903.
Thorvald Jørgensen
Thorvald Jørgensen (27 June 1867 - 15 May 1946) was a Danish architect, most known for his design of Christiansborg Palace, the seat of the Danish Parliament, after it had been destroyed in a fire. He has also designed a number of churches i ...
who had already designed several churches in Copenhagen was charged with the design and the church was consecrated in 1912.
Architecture
The
cruciform church is designed in
Late Romanesque Revival style. It is built in red brick with granite ashlar masonry along the ground and on the corners. The central tower is topped by a pyramidal spire and the western cross arm ends in two smaller towers which also have pyramidal spires. To the east the church ends in a small three-sided apsis.
The main entrance below the two western towers is decorated with a granite portal flanked by two angels designed by
Anders Bundgaard. Above the main entrance there is a gallery of five round-arched windows separated by granite columns.
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Interior
The nave is divided into three by columns in masonry with limestone capitals. The central nave and choir arms are barrel vaulted and the lateral naves are groin vault
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Behind the altar, in the small apsis, there are three glass paintings made by ]Joakim Skovgaard
Joakim Frederik Skovgaard (18 November 1856 – 9 March 1933) was a Danish painter. He is remembered above all for the frescos which decorate Viborg Cathedral.
Biography
Born in Copenhagen, from an early age he was trained in drawing and paintin ...
in 1914.
See also
* Architecture of Denmark
Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction. It is both the process and the product of sketching, conceiving, planning, designing, and constructing buildings ...
References
External links
Official website
{{Copenhagen churches
Lutheran churches in Copenhagen
20th-century Church of Denmark churches
Churches completed in 1901
20th-century Lutheran churches
Churches in the Diocese of Copenhagen