Breim Church

Breim Church
Breim kyrkje
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61°44′01″N 6°24′29″E / 61.7336°N 6.4080°E / 61.7336; 6.4080Coordinates: 61°44′01″N 6°24′29″E / 61.7336°N 6.4080°E / 61.7336; 6.4080
Location	Gloppen Municipality, Sogn og Fjordane
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
History
Consecrated	9 July 1886
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Haakon Thorsen
Completed	1886
Specifications
Capacity	500
Materials	Wood
Administration
Parish	Breim
Deanery	Nordfjord prosti
Diocese	Diocese of Bjørgvin

Breim Church (Norwegian: Breim kyrkje) is a parish church in Gloppen Municipality in Sogn og Fjordane county, Norway. It is located in the village of Re on the shore of the lake Breimsvatnet. The church is part of the Breim parish in the Nordfjord deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in 1886 by the architect Haakon Thorsen. The church seats about 500 people. It was consecrated on 9 July 1886.

There have been a total of four earlier churches located at the village of Re. The first one was built in the 13th century and it stood until there was a fire in the rectory in 1334. The church is first mentioned in written sources in 1308 and was probably a stave church. It is unclear where exactly the church stood. After the fire, it is assumed that a new church was built at Re in the late 1330s. This church was also most likely a stave church. That church was replaced by a cruciform church in 1620, but that building it was poorly constructed, and it was replaced by a new church in 1667. In the 1880s, it was decided to tear down the old church so that a new, larger church could be built. It was replaced by the current church in 1886, the same year that the Breim parish was separated from Gloppen to become a separate municipality.