Vuku Church
| Vuku Church | |
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| Vuku kirke | |
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| Parish | Vera og Vuku |
| Type | Church |
| Status | Automatically protected |
| ID | 85871 |
Vuku Church (
long church style in 1654 using plans drawn up by the architect Ole Jonsen Hindrum. The church seats about 200 people.[1][2][3]
History
The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1533, but the church was not new that year. The first church at Vuku was likely a wooden stave church that was possibly built in the 14th century. The old church had a nave with a rectangular floor plan and a smaller, narrower and straight-ended choir on the east end. On the west end it had an entry porch with a bell tower above it.[4][5]
By the mid-1600s, the old church was in very poor condition and it was decided to tear down the old church and to build a new one on the same site. The new church was completed in 1654 and it was formally
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See also
References
- ^ "Vuku kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 5 April 2018.
- ^ Verdal historielag. "Vuku kirke" (in Norwegian). Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 4 July 2011.
- ^ a b "Vuku kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 31 May 2021.
- ^ a b "Vuku kirke". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 31 May 2021.
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