Flora Chapel
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Flora Chapel is a chapel
in the municipality of Selbu
in Sør-Trøndelag
county, Norway
. The church is located in the village of Flora
. The red wooden church was built in 1936 by the architect
s Anton Kjelstad and Ivar Grylland. It has a capacity of 140 people.
Flora Chapel is part of the parish
of Selbu in the Stjørdal deanery
in the Diocese of Nidaros
.
Chapel
A chapel is a building used by Christians as a place of fellowship and worship. It may be part of a larger structure or complex, such as a church, college, hospital, palace, prison or funeral home, located on board a military or commercial ship, or it may be an entirely free-standing building,...
in the municipality of Selbu
Selbu
Selbu is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Mebonden. Other villages in Selbu include Flora, Fossan, Hyttbakken, Innbygda, Selbustrand, Tømra, and Vikvarvet.-General information:...
in Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag
- References :...
county, Norway
Norway
Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...
. The church is located in the village of Flora
Flora, Sør-Trøndelag
Flora is a village in the municipality of Selbu in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Nea River, about southeast of the municipal center of Mebonden and about northwest of Gressli . The Flora Chapel is located in this village....
. The red wooden church was built in 1936 by the architect
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
s Anton Kjelstad and Ivar Grylland. It has a capacity of 140 people.
Flora Chapel is part of the 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...
of Selbu in the Stjørdal deanery
Deanery
A Deanery is an ecclesiastical entity in both the Roman Catholic Church and the Church of England. A deanery is either the jurisdiction or residence of a Dean.- Catholic usage :...
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...
.