Froan Chapel
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Froan Chapel is a small church on the island of Sauøy in the Froan
islands in Frøya, Sør-Trøndelag
, Norway
. The chapel was built in 1904 due to the long distance the residents had to travel to get to the Sletta Church
. There are five worship services held at the chapel each year, and beginning in 1906, confirmation
was held here.
Froan
Froan is a populated archipelago in Frøya, Sør-Trøndelag, Norway. The islands lie in the sea about west of the Fosen peninsula. Froan consists of several hundred islands and islets. The islands run for about in a northeasterly direction, parallel to the coastline. Halten lies at the northern...
islands in Frøya, Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag
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, 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...
. The chapel was built in 1904 due to the long distance the residents had to travel to get to the Sletta Church
Sletta Church (Frøya)
Sletta Church is the main church in the municipality of Frøya in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located about north of the municipal center of Sistranda. The current church building was built in 1990 on the site of the old church that burned down...
. There are five worship services held at the chapel each year, and beginning in 1906, confirmation
Confirmation (Lutheran Church)
Confirmation in the Lutheran Church is a public profession of faith prepared for by long and careful instruction. In English, it is called "affirmation of baptism", and is a mature and public profession of the faith which "marks the completion of the congregation's program of confirmation...
was held here.