Rjukan Church

Rjukan Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tinn Municipality in county, . It is located in the town of . It is one of the churches for the Rjukan parish which is part of the Øvre Telemark prosti in the Diocese of Agder og Telemark.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Lutheran
  • Description: church building in Tinn, Eastern Norway

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Ingolfsland Station and Rjukan Station.

Railway station
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is an abandoned railway station on the Rjukan Line at in Tinn Municipality, . It was in use from 1913 to 1970 by Norsk Transport, serving the southern suburbs of Rjukan. is situated 1 km east of Rjukan Church.

Railway station
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is the terminal railway station of the Rjukan Line, located at in Tinn Municipality, . The station opened as part of the railway on 9 August 1909 as Saaheim, until renaming to Rjukan on 15 November 1912. is situated 1¼ km west of Rjukan Church.

Industrial building
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The Såheim Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in , , Norway, operated by Norsk Hydro. It operates at an installed capacity of 185 MW, with an average annual production of 1,033 GWh. is situated 1 km west of Rjukan Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Rjukan.

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is a town in the Tinn municipality of , . The town was founded in 1908 by Sam Eyde, who started the plan of building a city from scratch, after buying the renowned waterfall to make electric power for fertilizer production.

Rjukan Church

Latitude
59.87951° or 59° 52′ 46″ north
Longitude
8.60739° or 8° 36′ 27″ east
Elevation
287 metres (942 feet)
Inception
1915
Operator
Tinn kirkelige fellesråd
Open location code
9FFCVJH4+RX
Open­Street­Map ID
way 188088494
Open­Street­Map feature
amenity=­place_of_worship
Open­Street­Map feature
building=­church
Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­lutheran
Geo­Names ID
8532887
Wiki­data ID
Q15720467
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In Other Languages

From Danish to Swedish—“Rjukan Church” goes by many names.
  • Danish: “Rjukan Kirke”
  • Finnish: “Rjukanin kirkko”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Rjukan kirke”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Rjukan kyrkje”
  • Norwegian: “Rjukan kirke”
  • Norwegian: “Rjukan kyrkje”
  • Swedish: “Rjukan kyrka”

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