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Edøy Church
Church in Møre og Romsdal, Norway From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Edøy Church (Norwegian: Edøy kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Smøla Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located at Straumen on the southern coast of the island of Smøla. It is the main church for the Edøy parish which is part of the Ytre Nordmøre prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Møre. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1885 by the architects Jacob Digre and Johan Digre. The church seats about 365 people.[1][2]
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The church was built to replace the medieval Old Edøy Church as the main church for old Edøy Municipality. The old church was on the island of Edøya, but this new church was built on the main island of Smøla to be closer to the majority of the parish's population. The church was completed on 21 August 1885 and consecrated on 18 September the same year. The new wooden long church has a rectangular nave and a smaller, rectangular chancel. There is a small sacristy on the east end of the chancel. In 1942, the entrance on the west end was enlarged.[3][4]
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