Flå Church
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Flå Church is a parish church
in the municipality of Melhus
in Sør-Trøndelag
county, Norway
. It is located in the village of Ler
.
The wooden church was built in 1794 to hold up to 150 people. The church is part of the Flå
parish
in the Gauldal deanery
in the Diocese of Nidaros
.
Parish church
A parish church , in Christianity, is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish, the basic administrative unit of episcopal churches....
in the municipality of Melhus
Melhus
Melhus is a village and municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Gauldalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Melhus...
in Sør-Trøndelag
Sør-Trøndelag
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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...
. It is located in the village of Ler
Ler, Norway
Ler is a village in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Gaula River between the villages of Kvål and Lundamo. The village has a population of 565. The population density of Ler is ....
.
The wooden church was built in 1794 to hold up to 150 people. The church is part of the Flå
Flå
Flå is a municipality in Buskerud county, Norway. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Flå. The municipality of Flå was established when it was separated from the municipality of Nes on 1 January 1905...
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...
in the Gauldal 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...
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See also
- Horg ChurchHorg ChurchHorg Church is a parish church in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The church is located in the southern side of the village of Lundamo, just east of the European route E6 and the Gaula River....
- Hølonda ChurchHølonda ChurchHølonda Church is a parish church in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located near the Krokstad farm, about west of Hovin and about southwest of Korsvegen....
- Melhus ChurchMelhus churchMelhus Church , also known as "the Gauldal Cathedral", is a large stone church in Melhus, Norway. It was built in 1892, after the older church building was demolished. The churchyard contains a cemetery....
- List of churches in Sør-Trøndelag