Hosanger Church

Hosanger Church
Hosanger kyrkje
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60°34′39″N 5°28′29″E / 60.5774°N 5.4747°E / 60.5774; 5.4747Coordinates: 60°34′39″N 5°28′29″E / 60.5774°N 5.4747°E / 60.5774; 5.4747
Location	Osterøy, Hordaland
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Completed	1796
Specifications
Materials	Stone
Administration
Parish	Osterøy
Deanery	Arna og Åsane prosti
Diocese	Diocese of Bjørgvin

Hosanger Church (Norwegian: Hosanger kyrkje) is a parish church in Osterøy municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hosanger on the northern shore of the island of Osterøy. The church is part of the Osterøy parish in the Arna og Åsane deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, stone church was built in 1796.

There has been a church at Hosanger since the Middle Ages. The first time Hosanger Church is mentioned in historical records is in 1329. That church was most probably a stave church. That church was replaced at some unknown time by a timber-framed church. A report from 1686 described as "very run down" because of poor exterior maintenance, which suggests that the church, at that time was already relatively old. At Christmas 1795, lightning struck the church and it burned down. A new stone church was built on the same site the following year. That stone church was renovated and enlarged from 1863–65 and again from 1962–64.