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Bygdøy Church

Bygdøy Church is a church that was built in a fan plan in 1968 on the peninsula of in , . It replaced the Bygdøy chapel, which burned ten years earlier.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Lutheran
  • Description: church in Oslo, Norway
  • Also known as: “Bygdoy kapell”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Norwegian Museum of Cultural History and Viking Ship Museum.

Museum
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Norsk Folkemuseum, at , , , is a museum of cultural history with extensive collections of artifacts from all social groups and all regions of the country. is situated 240 metres east of Bygdøy Church.

Museum
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The is located on the peninsula in , . It is temporarily closed from September 2021 until 2027. It is part of the of the University of Oslo, and houses three Viking era burial ships that were found as part of archaeological finds from Tune, Gokstad, Oseberg and the . is situated 350 metres southeast of Bygdøy Church.

Church
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is a 12th century stave church originally from in the traditional region of in county, . The reconstructed church is now a museum and is now located in the at in , Norway. is situated 320 metres northeast of Bygdøy Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Trøndelag, Norsk Folkemuseum and West Oslo.

Locality
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is a locality.

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Western Oslo comprises west of Ring 1, southwest of Highway 168 and south of Ring 3. In addition the article contains the western suburbs of Oslo that are administratively part of Akershus county.

Suburb
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is a neighborhood in borough in , . The area is located near . was a former ferry landing site with traffic to , and a storage yard for timber.

Bygdøy Church

Latitude
59.90617° or 59° 54′ 22″ north
Longitude
10.67888° or 10° 40′ 44″ east
Elevation
36 metres (118 feet)
Inception
1968
Operator
Kirkelig fellesråd i Oslo
Open location code
9FFGWM4H+FH
Open­Street­Map ID
way 143896792
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­lutheran
Geo­Names ID
8532643
Wiki­data ID
Q10297107
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In Other Languages

From Danish to Swedish—“Bygdøy Church” goes by many names.
  • Danish: “Bygdøy Kirke”
  • Finnish: “Bygdøyn kirkko”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Bygdøy kirke”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Bygdøy kyrkje”
  • Norwegian: “Bygdøy kapell”
  • Norwegian: “Bygdøy kirke”
  • Swedish: “Bygdøy kirke”
  • Swedish: “Bygdøy 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 “Bygdøy Church”. Photo: GuoJunjun, CC BY-SA 3.0 no.