Risskov Kirke is a church located in the Risskov Parish of the Danish city,

Aarhus Aarhus (, , ; officially spelled Århus from 1948 until 1 January 2011) is the second-largest city in Denmark and the seat of Aarhus Municipality. It is located on the eastern shore of Jutland in the Kattegat sea and approximately northwest ...

.The Risskov Parish separated from the Vejlby Parish 30 November 1940. The Church was originally built in 1922 as a villa for

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Fritz George Clausen (1871-1927), founder of the chocolate factory Elvirasminde, and was designed by architect Vilhelm Puck. After the death of Clausen's widow in 1933, her heirs donated the Villa to the recently formed Risskov Church Committee, fulfilling a wish she had expressed to her relatives before her death. The villa was adapted by architect Aksel Skov and the Church was consecrated on the first Sunday of

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, 2 December 1934. The present chancel was added in 1968. The Church was rededicated to Bishop Kjeld Holm in 1999. A glass mosaic in the east end serves as the

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* {{Churches in Aarhus Lutheran churches in Aarhus Churches completed in 1922 Churches in the Diocese of Aarhus

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