Ramsvik Church is a church in the municipality of Rissa

Rissa, Norway

Rissa is a municipality in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Fosen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Årnset...

 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...

. The church is located at Ramsvik, just south of the village of Råkvåg

Råkvåg

Råkvåg or Råkvågen is a village in the municipality of Rissa in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at the inner part of the Stjørnfjord in the northern part of Rissa. It is about north of Husbysjøen and about east of Høybakken in Bjugn. The Ramsvik Church lies just south of the...

 near the Stjørnfjord

Stjørnfjord

The Stjørnfjord or Stjørnfjorden is an arm of Trondheimsfjord that flows through the municipalities of Bjugn, Ørland, and Rissa in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. The long fjord stretches southwest from the mouth of the Nordelva river near the village of Råkvåg to the Trondheimsfjord near Brekstad...

. It was originally built as a chapel, but has been expanded and is now a church. It is the old church in Rissa without a cemetery

Cemetery

A cemetery is a place in which dead bodies and cremated remains are buried. The term "cemetery" implies that the land is specifically designated as a burying ground. Cemeteries in the Western world are where the final ceremonies of death are observed...

 adjacent to it. The cemetery in Husbysjøen

Husbysjøen

Husbysjøen is a village in the municipality of Rissa in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It was the administrative centre of the former municipality of Stjørna prior to its merger into neighboring Rissa in 1964....

is used by this church.