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Sulitjelma Church

Sulitjelma Church
Sulitjelma kirke
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Sulitjelma Church is located in Nordland
Sulitjelma Church
Sulitjelma Church
Location in Nordland
Sulitjelma Church is located in Norway
Sulitjelma Church
Sulitjelma Church
Location in Nordland
Coordinates: 67°08′08″N 16°03′28″E / 67.1355°N 16.0577°E / 67.1355; 16.0577
Location Fauske, Nordland
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
History
Consecrated 12 November 1899
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Worm Hirsch Lund
Completed 1899
Specifications
Capacity 250
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Sulitjelma
Deanery Salten prosti
Diocese Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland

Sulitjelma Church (Norwegian: Sulitjelma kirke) is a parish church in the municipality of Fauske in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Sulitjelma. The church is part of the Sulitjelma parish in the Salten deanery in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. The white wooden church was built in 1899, and it was consecrated on 12 November 1899 by Bishop Peter Wilhelm Bøckman. The church seats about 250 people. In 1996, a new parish graveyard was built on the southern part of the village, and the Sulitjelma Chapel was built on that site.



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