Vinje 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 Hemne

Hemne

Hemne is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Kyrksæterøra. Other villages include Heim, Hellandsjøen, Holla, and Vinjeøra...

 in Sør-Trøndelag

Sør-Trøndelag

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 county, Norway

Norway

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. It is located in the village of Vinjeøra

Vinjeøra

Vinjeøra is a village in the municipality of Hemne in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The village lies along the highway at the end of the Vinjefjorden, about south of the municipal center of Kyrksæterøra...

, just north of the European route E39

European route E39

E 39 is the designation of a 1330 km long north-south road in Norway and Denmark, running from Klett just south of Trondheim to Aalborg, via Orkanger, Vinjeøra, Halsa ... Straumsnes, Krifast, Batnfjordsøra, Molde ... Vestnes, Skodje, Ålesund ... Volda ... Nordfjordeid ... Sandane, Førde,...

. The church is part of the Vinje

Vinje, Sør-Trøndelag

Vinje is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the southern part of the present-day municipality of Hemne. The village of Vinjeøra, at the end of the Vinjefjorden, was the municipal center of Vinje...

 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 Orkdal 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 white, wooden, octagonal church building was constructed in 1824 to replace an older church that was not in good shape. The church can seat 150 on the main floor with an additional 50 seats in the balcony

Balcony

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