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Dønnes Church

Dønnes Church
Dønnes kirke
Dønnes kirke.jpg
View of the church
Dønnes Church is located in Nordland
Dønnes Church
Dønnes Church
Location in Nordland
Dønnes Church is located in Norway
Dønnes Church
Dønnes Church
Location in Nordland
Coordinates: 66°12′13″N 12°35′15″E / 66.2037°N 12.5875°E / 66.2037; 12.5875
Location Dønna, Nordland
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Completed 13th century
Specifications
Materials Stone
Administration
Parish Dønna
Deanery Nord-Helgeland
Diocese Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland

Dønnes Church (Norwegian: Dønnes kirke) is a 13th-century parish church in the municipality of Dønna in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Dønnes in the northern part of the island of Dønna. The church is part of the Dønna parish in the Nord-Helgeland deanery in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland.

It was probably built on the site of an even older church, sometime between 1200 and 1300. Decorations include Madonna with Child from 1200's, a figure of St. Laurentius (St. Lavrans) from the 1400s, and a carved Baroque pulpit from the 1600s. The altarpiece from 1670. In 1866 the church was extended. The stone church has been renovated several times since then. In the 1960s and 1970s, Dønnes Church was examined and arranging under the leadership of Håkon Christie. Restoration work was completed in 1974.

Rear view of Dønnes Church

View from a distance

Exterior view

Interior windows

Interior view

Statue of St Laurentius

Altar

Christ risen

Door to the mausoleum

Madonna and child



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