Myrbostad Church () is a

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of the

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Hustadvika Municipality Hustadvika is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the Traditional districts of Norway, traditional districts of Nordmøre and Romsdal. The administrative centre of the municipality ...

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county,

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. It is located on the east side of the village of

Elnesvågen Elnesvågen is the administrative centre of Hustadvika Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. The village is located along the Frænafjorden about north of the town of Molde (town), Molde, east of the village of Tornes, and northwest ...

at the inner end of the Frænfjorden. It is one of the two churches for the ''Vågøy og Myrbostad''

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which is part of the Molde domprosti (arch-

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) in the Diocese of Møre. The white, wooden church was built in a

long church Church building in Norway began when Christianity in Norway, Christianity was established there around the year 1000. The first buildings may have been post churches erected in the 10th or 11th century, but the evidence is inconclusive. For inst ...

design in 1880 using plans drawn up by the Christiania-based

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Johannes Henrik Nissen. The church seats about 400 people.

History

The people of

historically attended the Vågøy Church which was located about away by boat or nearly away by road. In the 1870s, plans were made to build a church near Elnesvågen so the people would be much closer to their church. The plan was to maintain two churches for the parish (the old Vågøy Church and the new Myrbostad Church) and that the new church would become the main church for the parish. The church was designed by Henrik Nissen. The building was constructed and

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in 1880. The

has a large rectangular

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with a

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on the east end that was flanked by two sacristies on the north and south sides. The church was renovated and enlarged in 1973, including adding a new, larger entrance.

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