Ullern Church (Oslo)

Ullern Church
Ullern Church
Location in Oslo
Coordinates: 59°55′32″N 10°39′17″E / 59.92556°N 10.65472°E / 59.92556; 10.65472
Location Oslo
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Harald Bødtker
Architectural type Romanesque
Completed 1903
Specifications
Capacity 800[1]
Materials Stone
Administration
Deanery Vestre Aker
Diocese Oslo

Ullern Church is a cruciform Romanesque church built in 1903 on the Holgerslyst property in the Ullern district of Oslo, Norway. It is the parish church for the Ullern congregation in the Vestre Aker Deanery of the Diocese of Oslo.[1]

Interior of Ullern Church, 1939.

The church is built of stone and has seating for 800 people.[1] It was designed by the architect Harald Bødtker.

The original plans for the church had been drawn up by Georg Andreas Bull, Oslo's city surveyor. The plans were reworked by the architect Johan Storm Munch in 1899 and approved by the municipality. The drawings were lost that year, when the farm where Munch had his office burned down. The assignment then went to Harald Bødtker, who had just been hired as the municipal architect in Aker.[2]

The cruciform structure is dominated by an imposing central tower. The tower is square and has three windows on each side. It is topped by a tall hip roof covered in copper.

Interior

The church is dominated by its choir apse with the fresco The Ascension, painted by Eilif Peterssen in 1908–1909. It was created in close collaboration with Domenico Erdmann.[3] Over the altar, in front of the fresco, is a marble baldachin designed by Bødtker.

The pulpit was also designed by Bødtker, and the baptismal font is from the company Johs Grønseth & Co. The stained glass dates from 1915–1915; it was designed and created by various artists, including Gabriel Kielland and Karl Kristiansen.[3]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Kirkesøk: Ullern Church.
  2. ↑ Arkitektur og historie i Oslo: Ullern kirke.
  3. 1 2 Berit Harnæs Sivesind (ed.). 2002. Fra landsted til kirkested: Ullern kirke og menighet gjennom 100 år: 1903–2003. Ullern: Ullern menighetsråd, pp. 73–74, 77.
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