Stavang Church

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Stavang Church
Stavang kyrkje
Sunnfjord prosti
ParishBru
TypeChurch
StatusNot protected
ID85551

Stavang Church (

long church design in 1957 using plans drawn up by the architect Ole Halvorsen from Bergen. The church seats about 312 people.[1][2]

History

View of the old church on Svanøy (in the distance), circa 1850.

The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1322, but the church was not new at that time. Historically, the church was known as Bru Church and it was located on the island of Svanøya (the island was historically known as Bru or Brulandet) which is why the parish was named after the island. Over time, the island was renamed Svanøya, but the parish name remained.

The first church for Bru was a wooden

vicarage for Bru parish, but rather than replace the church on the island of Svanøya, they would build it on the mainland and tear down the old church on Svanøya.[3][4][5]

A new wooden church, known as Stavang Church was built in 1873 in the village of

consecrated on 16 June 1957, by Bishop Ragnvald Indrebø.[6][4][5]

Building

Stavang Church is one of the three brick churches in the county, the two others being

stained-glass window on the back wall of the chancel. The old church on the island of Svanøya also had some fine stained-glass windows, so this type of decoration has been a tradition in the parish for a long time. There is a richly coloured mosaic on the pulpit also.[4]

The total building costs in 1957 amounted to 360,000 kr plus another 40,000 kr for the organ. For the consecration ceremony, 90 boats anchored up in the harbour, and 1500 people wanted to get inside the church, but most of them had to listen to the sermon through loudspeakers outside.[4]

See also

References

  1. ^ "Stavang kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Bru kyrkjestad - Svanøy" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 9 November 2019.
  4. ^ a b c d Djupedal, Torkjell; Vengen, Sigurd; Gjerde, Anders. "Stavang kyrkje" (in Norwegian). Fylkesarkivet. Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  5. ^ a b "Stavang kirke". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 6 September 2021.
  6. ^ "Stavang kyrkjestad" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 9 November 2019.

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