Stiklestad Church | |
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Stiklestad kirke | |
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63°47′49″N 11°33′36″E / 63.796919726°N 11.560127735°E | |
Location | Verdal Municipality, Trøndelag |
Country | Norway |
Denomination | Church of Norway |
Previous denomination | Catholic Church |
Churchmanship | Evangelical Lutheran |
History | |
Status | Parish church |
Founded | c. 1180 |
Consecrated | c. 1180 |
Architecture | |
Functional status | Active |
Architect(s) | Archbishop Øystein Erlendsson |
Architectural type | Long church |
Style | Romanesque |
Completed | c. 1180 |
Specifications | |
Capacity | 520 |
Materials | Stone |
Administration | |
Diocese | Nidaros bispedømme |
Deanery | Stiklestad prosti |
Parish | Stiklestad |
Type | Church |
Status | Automatically protected |
ID | 85569 |
Stiklestad Church (Norwegian: Stiklestad kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Verdal Municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the village of Stiklestad. It is one of the churches for the Stiklestad parish which is part of the Stiklestad prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros. The gray, Romanesque church was built of stone in a long church design during the 12th century. The church seats about 520 people.[1][2]