Sollihøgda Chapel () is "

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 ...

" () dating from 1911 in Sollihøgda in the municipality of

Hole A hole is an opening in or through a particular medium, usually a solid Body (physics), body. Holes occur through natural and artificial processes, and may be useful for various purposes, or may represent a problem needing to be addressed in m ...

in Buskerud county,

Norway Norway, officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic countries, Nordic country located on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. The remote Arctic island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard also form part of the Kingdom of ...

. The church is part of the

Church of Norway The Church of Norway (, , , ) is an Lutheranism, evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway. Christianity became the state religion of Norway around 1020, and was established a ...

and it belongs to the deanery of Ringerike in the

Diocese of Tunsberg Tunsberg is a diocese of the Church of Norway. It includes all of the parishes located within the counties of Vestfold and Buskerud, with the cathedral located in the city of Tønsberg. The Diocese of Tunsberg consists of the cathedral deanery and ...

. The church is built of wood and can accommodate 100 people. It was designed by the architect Herman Major Backer (1856–1932). It can be reached from ''Kapellveien'' (Chapel Road), which turns off of

European route E16 European route E16 is the designation of a main west–east road through Northern Ireland, Scotland, Norway and Sweden, from Derry to Gävle, via Belfast, Glasgow, Edinburgh, previously by ferry to Bergen, Voss, through the Gudvanga Tunnel and ...

at the bridge marked ''Ringeriksporten'' 'Gateway to Ringerike'.

References

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Sollihøgda Chapel at Norges kirker

Sollihøgda Chapel at the Church of Norway

Sollihøgda Chapel at the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage
Churches in Buskerud Churches completed in 1911 1911 establishments in Norway Hole, Norway {{Norway-Lutheran-church-stub