Horg Church is a parish church

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

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. The church is located in the southern side of the village of Lundamo

Lundamo

Lundamo is a village in the municipality of Melhus in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located along the Gaula River between the villages of Hovin and Ler. The village has a population of 1,125. The population density of Lundamo is ....

, just east of the European route E6

European route E6

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 and the Gaula River.

The wooden church was built in 1892 by the architect

Architect

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 Carl J. Bergstrøm. The building holds 700 people. The church is part of the Horg

Horg

Horg is a former municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The administrative centre was the village of Lundamo. Horg encompasses the southern part of the present-day municipality of Melhus on both sides of the Gaula River...

 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

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 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

• Flå Church
  Flå Church
  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.-See also:*Horg...
  
  
• Hølonda Church
  Hølonda Church
  Hølonda 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 Church
  Melhus church
  Melhus 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