Hitra, NO

Hitra Church

The Hitra Church was designed by architect Claus Johannessen Hjelte and was completed in 1927. The plan forms a Greek cross with a barrel vault above the arms of the cross and with small extensions of the choir and the gallery indicating direction and length, and with a massive tower with a semi-circular dome in the middle with a cross. The church is characterised by old, ecclesiastical or Byzantine main forms, with a Norwegian medieval tradition in the materials and a little Norwegian Baroque in the details.

About this building

For more information visit on this building visit https://kirkesok.no/kirke/161700601

Key Features

  • Architecture
  • Monuments

Visitors information

  • Car park at the building
  • Accessible toilets in the building

Other nearby buildings

Dolm Church

Dolm Church is a stone church from the late Middle Ages. The church has been badly exposed to storms and lightning, and it has burned several times, most recently in 1920.

Hallaren Church

The Hallaren church, dating from 1881, was designed by the same architect as the former Sletta church, Henrik Nissen, and built by the builder Kristian Hovde. The church in Sandstad, on Hitra, was built seven years later according to the same plans as the Hallaren church.

Fillan Church

The church of Fillan dates from 1789. The church is the oldest existing church on Hitra and replaced the smaller church of Our Saviour built in 1686. Some objects from the Church of Our Saviour have been preserved, notably the pulpit from 1689 and the altarpiece from 1691. The old altarpiece represents a vision of Christ bleeding that King Christian IV is said to have had in 1625.

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