Kolstad Church
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Kolstad 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 Trondheim
Trondheim
Trondheim , historically, Nidaros and Trondhjem, is a city and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. With a population of 173,486, it is the third most populous municipality and city in the country, although the fourth largest metropolitan area. It is the administrative centre of...

 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 Kolstad area of the city of Trondheim, about 1.5 kilometre (0.93205910497471 mi) from the nearby Heimdal Church
Heimdal Church
Heimdal Church is a parish church in the municipality of Trondheim in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Heimdal, about south of Kolstad Church. The church is part of the Heimdal parish in the Heimdal deanery in the Diocese of Nidaros.The concrete church building was...

. The church is part of the Kolstad 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 the Heimdal 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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The concrete
Concrete
Concrete is a composite construction material, composed of cement and other cementitious materials such as fly ash and slag cement, aggregate , water and chemical admixtures.The word concrete comes from the Latin word...

 building was designed by Nils Henrik Eggen in a modern style. It was consecrated on 4 May 1986 by Bishop Kristen Kyrre Bremer
Kristen Kyrre Bremer
Kristen Kyrre Bremer is a Norwegian theologian and bishop.Bremer was born in Tana, Norway. Bremer received his cand.theol. degree in 1953 in the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oslo. He was ordained as a priest in 1953. His began his ministry as a Military Chaplain for the brigade in...

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