Sletta Church is the main church in the municipality of Frøya 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 about 8 kilometres (5 mi) north of the municipal center of Sistranda

Sistranda

Sistranda is a village and the administrative centre of the municipality of Frøya in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located on the east side of the island of Frøya, about north of Hammarvika and the Frøya Tunnel. The village has a population of 714.Sistranda has schools representing all...

. The current church building was built in 1990 on the site of the old church that burned down. This has been the church site since 1755 when it was moved from the island of where it had been since the 1400s.

Old building

In 1755, the main church for Frøya was moved from Sula

Sula, Sør-Trøndelag

Sula is an island group in the municipality of Frøya in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located about west of Mausund and about northwest of the island of Frøya....

 to Sletta on the island of Frøya. Upon completion of the new church, Bishop

Bishop

A bishop is an ordained or consecrated member of the Christian clergy who is generally entrusted with a position of authority and oversight. Within the Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodox, Oriental Orthodox Churches, in the Assyrian Church of the East, in the Independent Catholic Churches, and in the...

 Frederik Nannestad

Frederik Nannestad

Frederik Nannestad was a Norwegian theologian and bishop.Frederik Nannestad was born in Eidsberg, Norway, the son of pastor Christopher Jensen and his third wife, Karen Tønnesdatter Unrov. In 1732 he became the Dean in Aarhus, where he also was married to Martha Elizabeth Jensdatter Wissing on 6...

 consecrated the building on 4 September 1755. This church was expanded in 1880 to make it one of Norway's largest wooden churches, seating 1,000 people. The newly enlarged church was consecrated on 30 September 1880 by 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...

. On 8 June 1984, the old church building burned to the ground in a big fire.

Current building

Construction on the current building began in 1988, and it was completed in 1990. On 21 October 1990, 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...

consecrated the new church. The new building has a modern style sanctuary with a separate church hall with a kitchen. There are also a number of classrooms in the basement.