Sjoa Chapel
Appearance
Sjoa Chapel | |
---|---|
Sjoa kapell | |
Nord-Gudbrandsdal prosti | |
Parish | Sel |
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
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 12 December 2021.
- ^ "Sjoa kapell". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 12 December 2021.