Røyken Church ( no, Røyken kirke) is a
church
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* Church (congregation), a local congregation of a Christian denomination
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in the
Asker municipality in
Akershus county,
Norway
Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, the mainland territory of which comprises the western and northernmost portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and t ...
.
Røyken Church serves Røyken parish in the Lier rural deanery 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 evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. The church b ...
.
History
Røyken Church is a medieval
nave
The nave () is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel. When a church contains side aisles, as in a basilica-type ...
stone church constructed of local red
granite
Granite () is a coarse-grained (phaneritic) intrusive igneous rock composed mostly of quartz, alkali feldspar, and plagioclase. It forms from magma with a high content of silica and alkali metal oxides that slowly cools and solidifies undergro ...
. It is believed to date from the 1220s. The first written record of the church appeared in
Eysteinn Erlendsson's in 1392. The church displays the same strict simplicity that characterizes many churches from the same time.
The church has a rectangular nave with stone walls that are around 2 meters thick. Major repair of the church was made during 1859. The interior, which has been painted several times, was restored in the 1930s.
An extensive restoration of the church was conducted between 1936 and 1939.
The church has a medieval
baptismal font
A baptismal font is an article of church furniture used for baptism.
Aspersion and affusion fonts
The fonts of many Christian denominations are for baptisms using a non-immersive method, such as aspersion (sprinkling) or affusion (pouring). ...
made from
soapstone. The
altarpiece
An altarpiece is an artwork such as a painting, sculpture or relief representing a religious subject made for placing at the back of or behind the altar of a Christian church. Though most commonly used for a single work of art such as a painting o ...
dates from the 17th century.
''Røyken kirke''
Sigrid Marie Christie, Håkon Christie: Norsk institutt for kulturminneforskning
References
External links
Røyken Church
Official site
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13th-century churches in Norway
Churches in Akershus
Røyken
13th-century establishments in Norway
Churches completed in 1229