Voss
Voss Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Vossevangen. It is the church for the Voss parish which is part of the Hardanger og Voss prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: BjarteSorensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Lutheran
- Description: church building in Voss, Norway
- Also known as: “Voss Church”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Voss Station and Ole Bull Academy.
Voss Station
Railway station
Photo: Aresenikk, Public domain.
Voss Station is a railway station on the Bergen Line located in the village of Vossevangen in Voss Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It sits just off the European route E16 highway on the northwestern shore of the lake Vangsvatnet. Voss Station is situated 370 metres west of Voss.
Ole Bull Academy
University
The Ole Bull Academy is a Norwegian music college that offers college-level courses on Norwegian folk music and folk dance. Today, the Academy educates about 700 students annually, and over 9000 students had taken a course at the Academy in 2003. Ole Bull Academy is situated 270 metres northeast of Voss.
Mølstertunet
Museum
Photo: Shark, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Mølstertunet is a museum, which is situated 570 metres northwest of Voss.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Vossevangen.
Vossevangen
Town
Photo: BjarteSorensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Vossevangen or Voss is the administrative centre of Voss municipality in Vestland county, Norway.
Voss
- Categories: cultural property, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Voss, Hordaland, Western Norway, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
60.62878° or 60° 37′ 44″ northLongitude
6.41687° or 6° 25′ 1″ eastElevation
60 metres (197 feet)Inception
1277Height
5 metres (16 feet)Operator
Voss kyrkjelege fellesrådOpen location code
9FG8JCH8+GPOpenStreetMap ID
way 177527231OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=lutheranGeoNames ID
3131331Wikidata ID
Q12719476
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Chinese to Swedish—“Voss” goes by many names.
- Chinese: “沃斯教堂”
- Danish: “Voss Kirke”
- Danish: “Voss”
- Dutch: “Voss”
- Finnish: “Vangin kirkko (Voss)”
- Finnish: “Vangin kirkko”
- French: “Voss”
- German: “Kirche von Voss”
- German: “Voss”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Vangskyrkja”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Voss kirke”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Voss kirkested”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Voss kyrkje”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Voss kyrkjestad”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vangskyrkja på Voss”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Vangskyrkja”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Voss kyrkje”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Voss”
- Norwegian: “Vangskyrkja”
- Norwegian: “Voss”
- Polish: “Voss”
- Portuguese: “Voss”
- Romanian: “Voss”
- Swedish: “Voss kommun”
- Swedish: “Voss kyrka”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Voss”. Photo: BjarteSorensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.