Emigrant Church, Sletta

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Emigrant Church at Sletta
Emigrantskyrkje på Sletta
Emigrantkirka på Sletta.jpg
View of the church
60°41′04″N 5°03′06″E / 60.6843516611°N 5.05166843541°E / 60.6843516611; 5.05166843541Coordinates: 60°41′04″N 5°03′06″E / 60.6843516611°N 5.05166843541°E / 60.6843516611; 5.05166843541
LocationAlver Municipality,
Vestland
CountryNorway
DenominationChurch of Norway
Previous denominationCatholic Church
ChurchmanshipEvangelical Lutheran
History
Former name(s)Brampton Lutheran Church
StatusChapel
Founded1997
Consecrated1997
EventsMoved to Sletta in 1997
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Architectural typeLong church
Completed1921 (101 years ago) (1921)
Specifications
Capacity150
MaterialsWood
Administration
ParishRadøy
DeaneryNordhordland prosti
DioceseBjørgvin bispedømme

The Emigrant Church at Sletta (Norwegian: Emigrantkyrkja på Sletta) is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Alver Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Sletta, but it originally stood in Brampton Township in the state of North Dakota in the United States. It is an annex chapel in the Radøy parish which is part of the Nordhordland prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.[1]

The white, wooden church was built in the early 1900s in the rural township of Brampton in the US state of North Dakota. The small Lutheran Church existed for many decades until it closed. In 1997, a group of Norwegian-Americans in North Dakota gave the church to a group of Norwegians who wanted to move it to Norway. It now stands on the island of Radøy as part of the Western Norway Emigration Center. The church was consecrated in 1997 by the Bishop Ole Danbolt Hagesæther, and it was given the name Emigrantkirka på Sletta.[2]

Media gallery[]

  • Emigrantkirka på Sletta (Austrheim).jpg
  • Emigrantkyrkja (Brampton Lutheran Church, North Dakota) Vestnorsk utvandringssenter (Western Norway Emigration Center), informasjonstavle Radøy Hordaland Norway 2017-10-03 b.jpg
  • Emigrantkyrkja (Brampton Lutheran Church, ND) Ætte- og vennskapsband over havet Memorial stone (Thule Norvegr Norge Fedrelandet, Canada, Vinland Amerika U.S.A.), Vestnorsk utvandrarsenter, Radøy, Hordaland, Norway 2017-10-03b.jpg
  • Emigrantkyrkja (Brampton Lutheran Church, North Dakota) Vestnorsk utvandringssenter (Western Norway Emigration Center) Radøy Hordaland Norway 2017-10-03 cropped distorted panorama.jpg
  • Emigrantkyrkja (Brampton Lutheran Church, North Dakota) Vestnorsk utvandringssenter (Western Norway Emigration Center), Radøy, Hordaland, Norway 2017-10-03 cropped distorted panorama c.jpg

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References[]

  1. ^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 9 March 2020.
  2. ^ "Western Norwegian Emigration Centre". Retrieved 14 April 2014.

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