Varaldsøy Church

Varaldsøy Church
Varaldsøy kyrkje
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60°05′50″N 5°58′33″E / 60.0971°N 5.9758°E / 60.0971; 5.9758Coordinates: 60°05′50″N 5°58′33″E / 60.0971°N 5.9758°E / 60.0971; 5.9758
Location	Kvinnherad, Hordaland
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Conrad Fredrik von der Lippe and Hans Heinrich Jess
Completed	1885
Specifications
Capacity	390
Materials	Wood
Administration
Parish	Varaldsøy
Deanery	Sunnhordland prosti
Diocese	Diocese of Bjørgvin

Varaldsøy Church (Norwegian: Varaldsøy kyrkje) is a parish church in Kvinnherad municipality in Hordaland county, Norway. It is located on the island of Varaldsøy. The church is part of the Varaldsøy parish in the Sunnhordland deanery in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in 1885 by the architects Conrad Fredrik von der Lippe and Hans Heinrich Jess. The church, which seats about 390 people, was consecrated on 25 November 1885 by the Bishop Waldemar Hvoslef.

There has been a church on Varaldsøy since the Middle Ages. It is first found in historical records in 1337, and it was not new at that time. In 1729, the old stave church was torn down and replaced by a new church on the same site. That church was torn down and replaced by the present church in 1885.