The new church in Konnerud is a brick working church, consecrated on 6 October 1996. The need for a new church became urgent when the population of Konnerud grew from about 3,700 in the early 1970s to just under 10,000 in the late 1990s.
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The old Konnerud church is a wooden church completed in 1858. Before the present church, there was a church on the same site from 1760. This first church was of simple construction, it looked almost like a barn on the outside, and inside there were initially only a few pews, no altarpiece.
Strømsgodset Church is a rectangular wooden church built in 1843. The architect of the church is Christian Heinrich Grosch. In 1938 Strømsgodset became its own parish.
Strømsø Church is a wooden cruciform church dating from 1667. It has a vestry at the eastern end of the chancel and a turret above the centre of the cross plan. In 1702 the wooden exterior of the church was boarded up. The interior is strongly influenced by the renovation of the 1840s.
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