Berkåk Church
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Berkåk Church is a parish church
in the municipality of Rennebu
in Sør-Trøndelag
county, Norway
. It is located in the village of Berkåk
, just west of the European route E6
highway. The church was built in 1878 by Henrik Nissen
in a Neo-Gothic style. The church can hold up to 200 people.
The church is part of the Berkåk
parish in the Gauldal deanery
in the Diocese of Nidaros
.
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....
in the municipality of Rennebu
Rennebu
Rennebu is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Orkdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Berkåk, located along European route E6...
in Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag
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county, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. It is located in the village of Berkåk
Berkåk
Berkåk is a village and administrative centre of the municipality of Rennebu in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Orkla River and the European route E6 highway. The village lies about north of Ulsberg and southeast of Stamnan. The Berkåk Station on the Dovrebanen railway is...
, just west of the European route E6
European route E6
European route E 6 is the designation for the main north-south road in Norway, and the west coast of Sweden, running from the southern tip of Sweden, at Trelleborg, into Norway and through almost all of the country north to Finnmark. The route ends close to the Norwegian border with Russia...
highway. The church was built in 1878 by Henrik Nissen
Henrik Nissen
Johannes Henrik Nissen was a Norwegian architect.-Biography:After his final exams in 1866, Nissen was a student at the Royal Drawing School in Christiania. He studied architecture at the Bauakademie in Berlin 1869–74...
in a Neo-Gothic style. The church can hold up to 200 people.
The church is part of the Berkåk
Berkåk
Berkåk is a village and administrative centre of the municipality of Rennebu in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Orkla River and the European route E6 highway. The village lies about north of Ulsberg and southeast of Stamnan. The Berkåk Station on the Dovrebanen railway is...
parish in the Gauldal deanery
Deanery
A Deanery is an ecclesiastical entity in both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residence of a Dean.- Catholic usage :...
in the Diocese of Nidaros
Diocese of Nidaros
Nidaros is a diocese in the Lutheran Church of Norway. It covers Nord-Trøndelag and Sør-Trøndelag counties and its cathedral city is Trondheim, which houses the well-known Nidaros Cathedral. The diocese is divided into 12 deaneries . Finn Wagle was the bishop from 1991 to 2008...
.