Lødingen Church
| Lødingen Church | |
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| Lødingen kirke | |
Vesterålen prosti | |
| Parish | Lødingen |
| Type | Church |
| Status | Not protected |
| ID | 84358 |
Lødingen Church (
History
The earliest existing historical records of the church parish date back to 1432, but the church was not new at that time. Not much is known about the early church buildings on the site. The medieval church was a
In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke).[4] Together with more than 300 other parish churches across Norway, it was a polling station for elections to the 1814 Norwegian Constituent Assembly which wrote the Constitution of Norway. This was Norway's first national elections. Each church parish was a constituency that elected people called "electors" who later met together in each county to elect the representatives for the assembly that was to meet in Eidsvoll later that year.[4][5]
That church stood until 1897 when it was taken down and rebuilt reusing some of the same materials and a similar design.
Media gallery
See also
References
- ^ "Lødingen kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Lødingen kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 10 November 2018.
- ^ a b "Valgkirkene". LokalHistorieWiki.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ "Om valgene". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Retrieved 14 March 2021.
- ^ "Lødingen-kirka kan bli en del av Vesterålen". Bladet Vesterålen (in Norwegian). Retrieved 8 June 2020.
External links
- Official website (in Norwegian)
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