Sekken Church

Sekken Church
Sekken Church
Sekken kyrkje
	View of the church
	62°39′38″N 7°22′56″E / 62.660653564°N 7.3822076618°E
Location	Molde Municipality,; Møre og Romsdal
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status	Parish church
Founded	1908
Consecrated	28 October 1908
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Ole Havnæs and; Knut Flåthe
Architectural type	Long church
Style	Swiss chalet style
Completed	1908 (116 years ago)
Specifications
Capacity	130
Materials	Wood
Administration
Diocese	Møre bispedømme
Deanery	Molde domprosti
Parish	Sekken
Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site
Type	Church
Status	Not protected
ID	85412

Sekken Church (Norwegian: Sekken kyrkje; formerly: Sekken kapell) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Molde Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located at the eastern tip of the island of Sekken which is located in the Romsdal Fjord, at the mouth of the Langfjorden. It is the church for the Sekken parish which is part of the Molde domprosti (arch-deanery) in the Diocese of Møre. The white, wooden church was built in a long church design with a Swiss chalet style in 1908 by the architects Ole Havnæs and Knut Flåthe. The church seats about 130 people.^[1]^[2]

History

The municipal council of the old Veøy Municipality voted unanimously on 4 January 1902 to petition the government for the construction of a chapel and graveyard on the island of Sekken. The people used to attend the Old Veøy Church on the neighboring island of Veøya, but in 1901, that church was closed and a new Veøy Church was built on the mainland. This left the people of Sekken island much further from their church. In 1908, a royal decree was issued authorizing the construction of the new chapel. The building was consecrated on 28 October 1908. The church bell from the Old Veøy Church was installed in the chapel's tower.^[3]^[4]

Media gallery

Interior
Exterior
Front entrance

References

^ "Sekken kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
^ "Sekken kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 22 June 2019.
^ "Sekken kirke". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 20 July 2021.