Øye Church

Coordinates: 62°58′50″N 8°43′07″E / 62.9806801302°N 8.7186276913°E / 62.9806801302; 8.7186276913
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Øye Church
Øye kyrkje
Indre Nordmøre prosti
ParishØye og Ranes
TypeChurch
StatusNot protected
ID85936

Øye Church (

long church design in 1871 using plans drawn up by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan. The church seats about 300 people.[1][2][3]

History

View of the church

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to 1589, but the church was not new that year. There has been a church in the Sylte-Skei area for a long time. Not much is known about the first church, but it was a

consecrated on 30 June 1871. In 1934, the church building was wired for electricity.[5][6]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Øye kyrkje, Surnadal". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  2. ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Øye Kyrkje" (in Norwegian). Surnadal kyrkjelege fellesråd. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
  4. ^ "Prestegjeld og sokn i Møre og Romsdal" (in Norwegian). Riksarkivet (National Archives of Norway). Retrieved 24 May 2013.
  5. ^ "Øye kyrkjestad" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
  6. ^ "Øye kirke". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 17 July 2021.