Brekken Church is a parish church

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 Røros

Røros

is a town and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Røros. Other villages include Brekken, Glåmos, Feragen, Galåa, and Hitterdalen....

 in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 county, Norway

Norway

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. The church is located in the village of Brekken

Brekken

Brekken is a village and former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It was located in the northeastern part of the present-day municipality of Røros...

. The church was built in 1878 by the architect

Architect

An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...

 Jacob Wilhelm Nordan, and it was consecrated on 17 July 1878 by the Bishop Andreas Grimelund

Andreas Grimelund

Andreas Grimelund was a Norwegian bishop.The son of a farmer in Aker, he graduated as cand.theol. in 1835. He became residing chaplain in Nannestad in 1844 and Ullensaker in 1847. He was a teacher at the theological seminary in Christiania starting in 1851, and was appointed vicar in Gerpen in 1856...

. The building can hold about 200 people.

The church is part of the Brekken parish

Parish

A parish is a territorial unit historically under the pastoral care and clerical jurisdiction of one parish priest, who might be assisted in his pastoral duties by a curate or curates - also priests but not the parish priest - from a more or less central parish church with its associated organization...

 in Røros which is part of the Gauldal deanery

Deanery

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 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...

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See also

• Glåmos Church
  Glåmos Church
  Glåmos Church is a parish church in the municipality of Røros in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The church is located in the village of Glåmos. The wooden church was built in 1926 by the architect Claus Hjelte...
  
  
• Hitterdal Chapel
  Hitterdal Chapel
  Hitterdal Chapel is a parish church in the municipality of Røros in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The church is located in the village of Hitterdalen...
  
  
• Røros Chapel
  Røros Chapel
  Røros Chapel is a chapel in the municipality of Røros in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The round church building is located in the mining town of Røros. It was built in 1962 out of stone and concrete by the architect Erik Guldahl...
  
  
• Røros Church
  Røros Church
  Røros Church is a parish church in the municipality of Røros in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The church is located in the mining town of Røros. Røros Church is Norway's fifth largest church, and has about 1600 seats. It is also ranked by Riksantikvaren as one of the ten most important churches...
  
  
• List of churches in Sør-Trøndelag