Frosta Church ( no, Frosta kirke) is a

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of the

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Frosta Frosta is the smallest municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre is the village of Frosta. The municipality is located along the Trondheimsfjord, on the Frosta peninsula, just north of the city of Trondheim. It also ...

municipality in

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county,

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. It is located in the village of Frosta. It is the church for the Frosta

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which is part of the Stiklestad prosti (

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) in the

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. The white, wooden church was built in a

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style in 1866 by the

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. The church seats about 800 people.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1533, but the church was not new that year. The church likely built during the 14th century, but it was closed down around the time of the

Reformation in Norway The Reformation (alternatively named the Protestant Reformation or the European Reformation) was a major movement within Western Christianity in 16th-century Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the Catholic Church and in ...

in 1589. The original church site was located about northwest of the present church site. For several centuries there was not a church in this village and residents had to go to the nearby

Logtun Church Logtun Church ( no, Logtun kirke) is a historic, medieval parish church of the Church of Norway in Frosta municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Logtun. It is one of the churches for the Frosta parish which is p ...

which was the only other church in the area. By the mid-1800s, the old

was in poor condition and so there was a referendum in 1860. It was decided to close the old Logtun Church and to build the new church at Presthus, about northeast of the old church. A building permit was granted by a royal decree on 29 December 1862. The drawings used for the new church were the same ones used for Nes Church in

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, that were prepared by

, with a few changes. The foundation wall was erected in the summer of 1864, and the following summer the timber was processed, and the construction work began under the leadership of Erik Nonstadplass. The church was

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d by Bishop

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on 24 October 1866. The new church was built about southeast of the old medieval church site. The building was restored on the occasion of its 100th anniversary during 1966.

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References

External links

Frosta kirke website
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