Sjoa Chapel

Coordinates: 61°40′45″N 9°32′49″E / 61.67930315318°N 9.54684887015°E / 61.67930315318; 9.54684887015
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Sjoa Chapel
Sjoa kapell
Nord-Gudbrandsdal prosti
ParishSel

Sjoa Chapel (

long church design in 1978 using plans drawn up by the architect Jon Rukin. The church seats about 70 people.[1]

History

As early as the 1930s, people in the village of Sjoa were working towards getting their own chapel so they wouldn't need to travel so far to get to church. In 1947, a church site was purchased. During the 1970s, the old Sjoa Station building that was the local railway station for the

consecrated by the Bishop Georg Hille on 17 December 1978.[2]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
  2. ^ "Sjoa kapell". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 December 2021.