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Røst Church ( no, Røst kirke) is a
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of the
Church of Norway The Church of Norway ( nb, Den norske kirke, nn, Den norske kyrkja, se, Norgga girku, sma, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an Lutheranism, evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. ...
in Røst Municipality in
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county,
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. It is located in the village of Røstlandet on the island of Røstlandet. It is the church for the Røst
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which is part of the
Bodø domprosti Bodø (; smj, Bådåddjo, sv, Bodö) is a municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is part of the traditional region of Salten. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Bodø (which is also the capital of Nordland coun ...
(
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) in the
Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland Sør-Hålogaland is a diocese in the Church of Norway. The Diocese covers the Lutheran Church of Norway churches located within Nordland county in Norway. The diocese is headquartered in the town of Bodø at Bodø Cathedral, the seat of the pre ...
. The white, wooden church was built in a
long church Church building in Norway began when 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 instance under Urnes Stave ...
style in 1900 using plans drawn up by the
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A. Evjen. The church seats about 270 people. The building was
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d on 26 September 1900.


History

Historical records first show a church in Røst in 1432, although the records show the church was not new at that time. The church in Røst changed locations over the centuries. The first known church was located near the present-day airport on the island, in a rather swampy area, about northwest of the present church site. (The site of the medieval church today is mostly underwater in a swampy area. The is likely because the old rock wall surrounding the churchyard has sunk into the soft ground and is likely holding in the water and preventing normal drainage. This has led to the legend of the old church sinking into the ground.) This church burned down in 1715. After the fire in 1715, the a new timber-framed
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church was rebuilt on a new site (on higher ground) about to the northeast, next to the present cemetery. The church was torn down in 1785 and rebuilt on the same site. Around the year 1824, the church was struck by lightning and it was badly burned in the resulting fire. Then in January 1835, the church was destroyed in a large winter storm. The following spring and summer, the old church was torn down and a new church was rebuilt about to the northeast. The new church was a small stone church measuring about . It was
consecrate Consecration is the solemn dedication to a special purpose or service. The word ''consecration'' literally means "association with the sacred". Persons, places, or things can be consecrated, and the term is used in various ways by different grou ...
d on 5 May 1839. In 1883, a new
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and sacristy were built on to the building. That church was soon too small for the parish, so in 1900 a new wooden church was built about south of the old church in the main village of Røstlandet.


Media gallery

Gammelkirka Røst Lofoten tørrmur.jpg, View of the old church (prior to 1900) Røst kirke, Nordland - Riksantikvaren-T425 01 0180.jpg, Church around 1900


See also

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List of churches in Sør-Hålogaland This list of churches in Sør-Hålogaland is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland which includes all of Nordland county in Norway. The diocese is based at the Bodø Cathedral in the town of Bodø. The li ...


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Rost Church Røst Churches in Nordland Wooden churches in Norway 19th-century Church of Norway church buildings Churches completed in 1899 13th-century establishments in Norway Long churches in Norway