Vemundvik Church
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Vemundvik Church is a parish church
in the municipality of Namsos
in Nord-Trøndelag
county, Norway
. It is located in the village of Vemundvik
, just east of Ramsvika
. The church is part of the Vemundvik
parish
in the Namdal deanery
in the Diocese of Nidaros
. The white, wooden church building was constructed in 1875 to seat about 300 people. The church was designed by architect
Ole Olsen Scheistrøen.
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 Namsos
Namsos
is a town and municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is part of the Namdalen region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the town of Namsos. Other villages in the municipality include Bangsund, Klinga, Ramsvika, Skomsvoll, and Spillum....
in Nord-Trøndelag
Nord-Trøndelag
is a county constituting the northern part of Trøndelag in Norway. As of 2010, the county had 131,555 inhabitants, making it the country's fourth-least populated county. The largest municipalities are Stjørdal, Steinkjer—the county seat, Levanger, Namsos and Verdal, all with between 21,000 and...
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 Vemundvik
Vemundvik
Vemundvik is a village and former municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It roughly corresponds to the mainland parts of the present-day municipality of Namsos that lie north of the river Namsen.-History:...
, just east of Ramsvika
Ramsvika, Nord-Trøndelag
Ramsvika is a village in the municipality of Namsos in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located about north of the town of Namsos and about west of Vemundvik Church....
. The church is part of the Vemundvik
Vemundvik
Vemundvik is a village and former municipality in Nord-Trøndelag county, Norway. It roughly corresponds to the mainland parts of the present-day municipality of Namsos that lie north of the river Namsen.-History:...
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 Namdal 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...
. The white, wooden church building was constructed in 1875 to seat about 300 people. The church was designed by 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...
Ole Olsen Scheistrøen.