Stokken Church

Stokken Church
Stokken Church
Location in Aust-Agder
Coordinates: 58°29′32.90″N 8°50′43.51″E / 58.4924722°N 8.8454194°E / 58.4924722; 8.8454194
Country Norway
Denomination Church of Norway
Churchmanship Evangelical Lutheran
Architecture
Status Parish church
Functional status Active
Architect(s) Johan Christoff Friedrich Reuter
Completed 1879
Specifications
Capacity 400
Materials Wood
Administration
Parish Stokken
Deanery Arendal
Diocese Diocese of Agder og Telemark

Stokken Church (Norwegian: Stokken kirke) is a church built in 1879[1] in Saltrød in Aust-Agder county, Norway.

The church stands on a slope at Stuenes. It was originally built as a chapel of ease for the Stokken congregation of the Austre Moland parish. The structure is a long church (Norwegian: langkirke) with timber framing. It was designed by Johan Christoff Friedrich Reuter[2][3][4] and built by Carl Svendsen. The church can accommodate 400 people.[4]

The altarpiece, depicting Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, was painted by Hedevig Lund for Austre Moland Church in 1869, but the work was not accepted by the congregation at the time. Some years later, it was given to the new church in Stokken.[3] The work needed to have a new piece added to it to function as an altarpiece.

In 1929, the master painter Emil Rummelhoff decorated the church's gallery with a frieze, with heads of grain and grapes to symbolize the Eucharist.[3] At the same time, he painted the entire interior of the church, and for the restoration for the church's centennial in 1979 the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage recommended that Rummelhoff's design be retained.

The church bells were cast at the Olsen Nauen Bell Foundry in 1879.[3] The organ has nine stops and was produced by Josef Hilmar Jørgensen in 1928.[3]

The plans for Stokken Church were later used to build Færvik Church[5] and Bjorbekk Church.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Ellingsen, Svein, Oddvar André Enggrav, & Erling Magnar Jørgensen. 1979. Stokken kirke 100 år. Eydehavn: Stokken menighetsråd.
  2. ↑ Norsk kunstnerleksikon: Johan Christoff Friedrich Reuter.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Norske kirkebygg: Stokken kirke.
  4. 1 2 Kirkesøk: Stokken kirke.
  5. ↑ Norske kirkebygg: Færvik kirke.

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