Børselv Chapel

Børselv Chapel is an octagonal church dating from 1958. Access to the place, which is a well-known tourist destination, is via county road 183 and county road 98.

About this building

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Key Features

  • Architecture

Other nearby buildings

Kistrand Church

The Kistrand church, which was consecrated in 1856, is a long church built in neo-gothic and Swiss-style panelling according to the drawings of Chr. H. Grosch. The porch is topped by a roof and the church spire has a wind wing dating from 1719. The church was originally painted red but was first painted white in 1883 when the church was repaired after hurricane damage. In the years 1944-45, the church was in turn used as a German command centre, as a quarter for the Norwegian forces and as temporary accommodation for civilians.

Lakselv Church

The church in Lakselv is the reconstruction, in 1963, of a 19th-century chapel. In the first half of the 1860s, the people of Lakselv built a church on a voluntary basis. The church building was named Lakselv Chapel and was consecrated on October 2, 1865. The Lakselv Chapel underwent extensive reconstruction and renovation in the second half of the 1920s and was consecrated again in 1930. In 1944, the Lakselv Chapel was burnt down by the German occupation forces as part of the "scorched earth tactics".

Kokelv Church

The church in Kokelv is a wooden church built in 1960 by a group of 24 German volunteers sponsored by Action Reconciliation Service for Peace, who spent seven months in Kokelv to build the church as a sign of reconciliation with the Norwegian people who had suffered under German occupation during the Second World War. The architect of the church is Rolf Harlew Jenssen.