Vega Church

Vega Church
Vega kirke
Vega Church
Location in Nordland
Vega Church
Location in Nordland
Coordinates: 65°40′32″N 11°57′44″E / 65.6756°N 11.9621°E / 65.6756; 11.9621
Location Vega, Nordland
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Completed 1864
Specifications
Capacity 430
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Vega
Deanery Sør-Helgeland
Diocese Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland

Vega Church (Norwegian: Vega kirke) is a parish church in the municipality of Vega in Nordland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Gladstad. The church is part of the Vega parish in the Sør-Helgeland deanery in the Diocese of Sør-Hålogaland. The white wooden church was built in 1864. It was consecrated on 14 July 1864 by the Bishop Carl Peter Parelius Essendrop.[1] The church seats about 430 people.[2]

See also

References

  1. "Vega kirke" (in Norwegian). Vega kommune. Retrieved 2011-11-10.
  2. "Vega kirke" (in Norwegian). Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2011-11-10.


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