Neiden Chapel

Neiden Chapel
Neiden kapell

View of the church
Neiden Chapel
Location in Finnmark
Neiden Chapel
Location in Finnmark
Coordinates: 69°42′07″N 29°23′18″E / 69.7019°N 29.3884°E / 69.7019; 29.3884
Location Sør-Varanger, Finnmark
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Karl Norum
Completed 1902
Specifications
Capacity 155
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Sør-Varanger
Deanery Varanger prosti
Diocese Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland

Neiden Chapel (Norwegian: Neiden kapell) is a parish church in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Neiden. The church is part of the Sør-Varanger parish in the Varanger deanery in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The red wooden church was built in 1902 and it seats about 155 people.[1]

History

In 1898, many farmers in Neiden made a request to the Ministry of Church and Education to have a church and a cemetery built in Neiden. Only four years later, the church was finished. The residents' desire to have a church coincided with the government's desire to secure the border from Finnish-Russian expansion, and a Norwegian church near the border would help. Architect Karl Norum was very keen on old Norwegian stave churches, and he created a building that would be an expression of Norwegian culture and national cohesion in a border area. The chapel had 155 seats and costed NOK 32,900 at that time. The chapel was consecrated on 13 July 1902.[2]

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Neiden kapell" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-03-08.
  2. ↑ "Kirker i Sør-Varanger sogn" (in Norwegian). Vadsø prosti. Retrieved 2013-03-08.



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