Træna Church () is a

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of the

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Træna Municipality Træna is a List of municipalities of Norway, municipality in Nordland Counties of Norway, county, Norway. It is part of the Helgeland Districts of Norway, traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the island/village of ...

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county,

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. It is located in the village of

Husøya Husøya is a small island and the administrative centre of Træna Municipality in Nordland county, Norway. It is located just east of the island of Sanna in the Trænfjorden, about northwest of the island of Lovund (in neighboring Lurøy Muni ...

on the island of

. It is the main church for the Træna

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which is part of the Nord-Helgeland 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 1773 using plans drawn up by the

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Jørgen Coldevin. The church seats about 200 people.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1589, but the church was not new that year. The first church in Træna was not located on the present church site. It was either located in the centre of the island by the present-day cemetery, about west of the present site, or it was located at an alternate site about to the southwest of the present site of the church. Regardless, the church was old and by the mid-1600s, the church was in poor condition, so it was torn down. A new church was constructed on the present church site in the central part of the village of

. It was a

log building with a small tower on the west end. There were about 10 rows of benches in the church. An inspection from 1771 noted that the church was over 100 years old and in quite poor condition. In 1773, the old church was torn down and a new church was built on the same site. The new building was a

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building with a

ground plan, a small tower on the west end of the roof, and a

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on the east end.

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History

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