Hen Church

Hen Church
Hen kyrkje
View of the church
Hen Church Location in Møre og Romsdal Hen Church Location in Møre og Romsdal
Coordinates: 62°34′39″N 7°47′27″E / 62.5775°N 7.7908°E
Location	Rauma Municipality, Møre og Romsdal
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status	Parish church
Functional status	Active
Completed	1831
Specifications
Capacity	200
Materials	Stone
Administration
Parish	Hen
Deanery	Indre Romsdal prosti
Diocese	Diocese of Møre

Hen Church (Norwegian: Hen kyrkje) is a parish church in Rauma Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Isfjorden. It is about 6 kilometres (3.7 mi) east of the town of Åndalsnes. The church is part of the Hen parish in the Indre Romsdal deanery in the Diocese of Møre.^[1][2]

There has been a church in this village for centuries. There are some artifacts from the church dating back to the 13th century that are now at the Romsdal Museum. The present church was built out of granite in 1831 on the site of an older church that had been razed. The white stone church has an onion dome on top of a central tower on the roof. The current pulpit is from the 1930s and the altarpiece from 1831.^[3][4]

Media gallery

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  Exterior view

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  Onion dome

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  Side view

References

1. "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
2. "Hen kirke, Isfjorden". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2013-05-28.
3. Thaule, John Ove; Ubostad, Ingar; Pedersen, Bjørn (1990). "Kyrkjene våre". Ei bok om Rauma. Rauma kommune. pp. 207–210.
4. "Hen kirke" (in Norwegian). Grytten prestegjeld. Retrieved 2013-05-28.

External links

• http://www.grytten-prestegjeld.no/hen.htm (Norwegian)