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. It was begun in 1926 to designs by

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. It opened on 2 September 1934. It is named after bishop

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. In 2013 Absalon's Church was one of the six churches in Copenhagen to be closed by the

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, however, it was bought by Danish entrepreneur Lennart Lajboschitz for 10 million Danish krone and transformed into a community house (''folkehuset'') that houses a bar and organizes various activities, including an evening dinner.

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