Lånke Church () is a

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of the

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county,

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. It is located just east of the village of

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. It is one of the churches for the Lånke

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which is part of the Stjørdal 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 1901 using plans drawn up by the

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Ole Røising. The church seats about 200 people.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1520, but the church was not new that year. Not much is known about the first church at Lånke, but it was located about south of the present-day church and it was likely a

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that may have been built in the 1300s. The old church was torn down and replaced with a new wooden

during the first half of the 1600s. This new building was built about to the north-northeast from the previous church site. The new church was described in 1774 as a "moderately large church with a spire" and later it was described as "a little, beautiful, red-painted long church". The parish council met in 1897 to discuss the problems with the old building. During 1898, they decided to build a new church rather than try to renovated the old church. The last service in the old church was held on 12 March 1899, and not long after, the church was demolished and most of the furniture and interior decor was discarded. Soon after, a new church was constructed on roughly the same site. The new

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area was built slightly to the west of the previous church's choir and the new

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was built on land that was slightly west of the old church building. The new church was designed by Ole Røising (and the plans were corrected by the architecture consultant for the Ministry of Church Affairs), and the leader of the construction process was builder Edvard Leirtrø. The church was built during 1899 and it was

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d on 13 December 1899. The church was restored in 1934 according to plans by

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History

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