Rjukan Church
Rjukan Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tinn Municipality in Telemark county, Norway. It is located in the town of Rjukan. 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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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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.
Ingolfsland Station
Railway station
Photo: Vinguru, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Ingolfsland Station is an abandoned railway station on the Rjukan Line at Rjukan in Tinn, Norway. It was in use from 1913 to 1970 by Norsk Transport, serving the southern suburbs of Rjukan. Ingolfsland Station is situated 1 km east of Rjukan Church.
Rjukan Station
Railway station
Photo: Bergenga, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Rjukan Station is the terminal railway station of the Rjukan Line, located at Rjukan in Tinn, Norway. The station opened as part of the railway on 9 August 1909 as Saaheim, until renaming to Rjukan on 15 November 1912. Rjukan Station is situated 1¼ km west of Rjukan Church.
Såheim Hydroelectric Power Station
Industrial building
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The Såheim Power Station is a hydroelectric power station located in Rjukan, Telemark, Norway, operated by Norsk Hydro. It operates at an installed capacity of 185 MW, with an average annual production of 1,033 GWh. Såheim Hydroelectric Power Station is situated 1 km west of Rjukan Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rjukan.
Rjukan
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Rjukan is a town in the Tinn municipality of Telemark, Norway. The town was founded in 1908 by Sam Eyde, who started the plan of building a city from scratch, after buying the renowned Rjukan waterfall to make electric power for fertilizer production.
Rjukan Church
- Categories: building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Tinn, Telemark, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.87951° or 59° 52′ 46″ northLongitude
8.60739° or 8° 36′ 27″ eastElevation
287 metres (942 feet)Inception
1915Operator
Tinn kirkelige fellesrådOpen location code
9FFCVJH4+RXOpenStreetMap ID
way 188088494OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=lutheran
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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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