Tórshavn Cathedral

Tórshavn Cathedral is the second oldest received church of the , on in the old town of . Painted white, and roofed with slate, it was established in 1788.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Lutheran
  • Description: church
  • Also known as: “Torshavn Cathedral”
  • Address: Tórshavn

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include National Library of the Faroe Islands and Skansin.

Library
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The is the national library for the , a self-governing country within the Kingdom of Denmark. It is both a public and a research library. is situated 460 metres southwest of Tórshavn Cathedral.

Fort
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is a historic fortress in , the capital of the . is located on a hill beside the port of Tórshavn. The fort was built in 1580 by Magnus Heinason to protect against pirate/slave raids of the town, after he himself was nearly caught up in one such raid. is situated 490 metres southeast of Tórshavn Cathedral.

Government office
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is a government office, which is situated 270 metres southeast of Tórshavn Cathedral.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Tórshavn and Tinganes.

Photo: Erik Christensen, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is the capital of the . At the foot of a mountain range, the archipelago's largest city has a long history dating back as far as 850 AD.

Quarter
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is the historic location of the landsstýri of the , and is a part of . The name means "parliament jetty" or "parliament point" in Faroese.

Village
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is a village in the . most likely takes its name from Old Irish airge, which means summer pasture; several placenames in Faroe carry the same name with this meaning.

Tórshavn Cathedral

Latitude
62.00959° or 62° 0′ 35″ north
Longitude
-6.77166° or 6° 46′ 18″ west
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
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Wiki­data ID
Q1072725
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In Other Languages

From Basque to Swedish—“Tórshavn Cathedral” goes by many names.
  • Basque: “Tórshavneko katedrala”
  • Belarusian: “Торсхаўнскі сабор”
  • Catalan: “Catedral de Tórshavn”
  • Chinese: “托尔斯港主教座堂”
  • Chinese: “托爾斯港大教堂”
  • Danish: “Havnar Domkirkja”
  • Danish: “Havnar Kirke”
  • Danish: “Torshavn Domkirke”
  • Danish: “Tórshavn Domkirke”
  • Dutch: “Domkerk van Torshavn”
  • Dutch: “Domkerk van Tórshavn”
  • Faroese: “Dómkirkjan”
  • Faroese: “Havnar Kirkja”
  • Finnish: “Tórshavnin tuomiokirkko”
  • French: “cathédrale de Tórshavn”
  • French: “Cathédrale de Tórshavn”
  • German: “Dom zu Tórshavn”
  • German: “Havnar Kirkja”
  • German: “Torshavner Domkirche”
  • German: “Tórshavner Domkirche”
  • Hungarian: “Tórshavni dóm”
  • Indonesian: “Katedral Tórshavn”
  • Italian: “cattedrale di Tórshavn”
  • Italian: “Cattedrale di Tórshavn”
  • Latvian: “Touršhavnas katedrāle”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Dómkirkjan”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Havnar kirkja”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Tórshavn domkirke”
  • Norwegian: “Tórshavn domkirke”
  • Polish: “Domkirkjan”
  • Polish: “Dómkirkjan”
  • Polish: “Havnar Kirkja”
  • Polish: “Katedra Thorshavn”
  • Polish: “Katedra Torshavn”
  • Polish: “Katedra Tórshavn”
  • Polish: “Katedra Wysp Owczych”
  • Russian: “Кафедральный Собор Торсхавна”
  • Russian: “Собор Торсхавна”
  • Russian: “Торсхавнский Кафедральный Собор”
  • Russian: “Торсхавнский собор”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de Torshavn”
  • Spanish: “Catedral de Tórshavn”
  • Swedish: “Torshamns domkyrka”

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