Tonsen Church
Tonsen Church is a church in Oslo, Norway which was built in 1961. It is located at Årvoll in the borough of Bjerke. The church was constructed by the architects Georg Greve and Geir Grung.Photo: Chell Hill, CC BY 2.5.
- Type: Church
- Denomination: Lutheran
- Description: church in Oslo, Norway
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Oslo University Hospital, Aker and Disen skole.
Oslo University Hospital, Aker
Hospital
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Oslo University Hospital, Aker is one of the four main campuses of Oslo University Hospital. It was an independent hospital from 1895 to 2009, under the name Aker Hospital and from 2002 Aker University Hospital. Oslo University Hospital, Aker is situated 770 metres southwest of Tonsen Church.
Disen skole
Playground
Photo: KarinGjørvRøraas, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Disen skole is a playground, which is situated 1 km northwest of Tonsen Church.
Grefsen station
Railway station
Photo: Yosh3000, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Grefsen station is a railway station at Storo in Oslo, Norway on the Gjøvik Line. From the station there is also a short railway, the Alnabru–Grefsen Line, to Alna on the Hoved Line. Grefsen station is situated 1½ km west of Tonsen Church.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Bjerkebanen and Årvoll.
Bjerkebanen
Suburb
Bjerkebanen, often simply called Bjerke, is a neighborhood in the Økern district of the Bjerke borough in northeastern Oslo, Norway. It lies in the Grorud Valley.
Årvoll
Suburb
Årvoll is a residential community situated in the Bjerke district of Oslo, Norway. It was here that anti-Nazi activists Viggo Hansteen and Rolf Wickstrøm – the first two Norwegians to be executed by the Nazis during the five-year German occupation of Norway – lost their lives on 10 September 1941.
Disen
Suburb
Disen is a neighborhood divided between the boroughs of Bjerke and Nordre Aker in Oslo, Norway. Disen was originally a manor south of Grefsenåsen. The name stems from dís in Norse mythology.
Tonsen Church
- Categories: cultural property, building, place of worship, and religion
- Location: Oslo Municipality, Oslo, Oslo region, East Norway, Alvdal, Innlandet, Norway, Nordic countries, Europe
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Latitude
59.9429° or 59° 56′ 34″ northLongitude
10.8051° or 10° 48′ 18″ eastElevation
166 metres (545 feet)Inception
1961Operator
Kirkelig fellesråd i OsloOpen location code
9FFGWRV4+52OpenStreetMap ID
way 81196672OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=place_of_worshipOpenStreetMap feature
building=churchOpenStreetMap attribute
denomination=lutheran
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Swedish—“Tonsen Church” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Tonsen Kirke”
- Egyptian Arabic: “كنيسه تونسن”
- Finnish: “Tonsenin kirkko”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Tonsen kirke”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Tonsen kyrkje”
- Norwegian: “Tonsen kirke”
- Swedish: “Tonsen kyrka”
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