Vestre Moland Church
| Vestre Moland Church | |
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| Vestre Moland kirke | |
Vest-Nedenes prosti | |
| Parish | Lillesand |
| Type | Church |
| Status | Automatically protected |
| ID | 85819 |
Vestre Moland Church (
Vest-Nedenes prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark. The white, stone church was built in a long church design around the year 1150 using plans drawn up by an unknown architect, but has since been converted into a cruciform design. The church seats about 350 people.[1][2][3][4]
History
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1347, but the stone
In 1814, this church served as an election church (Norwegian: valgkirke).[7] 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.[7][8]
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See also
References
- ^ "Vestre Moland kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ "Vestre Moland kirke". agderkultur.no. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Vestre Moland - sogn". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved 1 January 2020.
- ^ "Vestre Moland kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ "Vestre Moland kirke". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- ^ a b "Valgkirkene". LokalHistorieWiki.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 17 January 2021.
- ^ "Om valgene". Valgene i 1814 (in Norwegian). Arkivverket. Retrieved 17 January 2021.
External links
Media related to Vestre Moland kirke at Wikimedia Commons
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