Ålvundeid Church

Ålvundeid Church
Ålvundeid kyrkje
View of the church
62°45′57″N 8°32′12″E
Location	Sunndal Municipality, Møre og Romsdal
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
History
Former name(s)	Aalvund kirke
Status	Parish church
Founded	13th century
Consecrated	1 Nov 1848
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Ole Pedersen Tøfte
Architectural type	Octagonal
Completed	1848 (176 years ago) (1848)
Closed	16th century until 1848
Specifications
Capacity	230
Materials	Wood
Administration
Diocese	Møre bispedømme
Deanery	Indre Nordmøre prosti
Parish	Ålvundeid
Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site
Type	Church
Status	Automatically protected
ID	85964

Ålvundeid Church (Norwegian: Ålvundeid kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sunndal Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Ålvundeidet. It is the church for the Ålvundeid parish which is part of the Indre Nordmøre prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Møre. The red, wooden church was built in an octagonal style in 1848 by the architect Ole Pedersen Tøfte. The church seats about 230 people.[1][2]

History

View of the church

The earliest existing historical records of a church in the Ålvund area date back to 1309, but the church was not new that year. The first church was located in the village of Ålvund, about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) north of the present location in Ålvundeid. The old church may have been a stave church that was built in the 13th century, but no physical description of the church exists. The old church was part of the Stangvik Church parish and served as an annex church for that parish. The old church was closed and torn down at some point, likely before 1589, and then for some time there was no church here.[3][4]

In 1838, the new municipality of Øksendal was established and this area became part of that municipality and a part of the Øksendal Church parish. The people of the Ålvundeid area desired their own church so they didn't need to boat across a fjord to attend church services. On 31 March 1847, a royal decree approved the construction of a church in Ålvundeid. The new church was built in 1848 on a new site in Ålvundeid, about 9 kilometres (5.6 mi) south of the old medieval church site. It was designed by Ole Pedersen Tøfte. It is an octagonal, wooden church with a tower on the centre of the nave. The church was consecrated on 1 November 1848. In 1865, the Ålvundeid area was split off as its own parish. In 1955, Roar Tønseth designed and built a sacristy and church porch were added to the east and west side of the building, respectively.[5]

See also

• List of churches in Møre

References

1. "Ålvundeid kyrkje". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
2. "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
3. "Ålvund gamle kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 23 April 2019.
4. "Ålvundeid kirke". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 17 July 2021.
5. "Ålvundeid kirkested" (in Norwegian). Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. Retrieved 18 July 2021.