Veavågen Church

Veavågen Church
Veavågen Church
Veavågen kirke
	View of the church
	59°17′32″N 5°13′42″E / 59.29234°N 5.228431°E
Location	Karmøy Municipality,; Rogaland
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status	Parish church
Founded	2009
Consecrated	2009
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Brandsberg; Dahls Arkitekter
Architectural type	Long church
Completed	2009
Specifications
Capacity	280
Materials	Concrete
Administration
Diocese	Stavanger bispedømme
Deanery	Karmøy prosti
Parish	Veavågen

Veavågen Church (Norwegian: Veavågen kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Karmøy Municipality in Rogaland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Veavågen on the western coast of the island of Karmøy. It is the church for the Veavågen parish which is part of the Karmøy prosti (arch-deanery) in the Diocese of Stavanger. The concrete church was approved in 2007 and built in a long church style in 2009, using designs by the architectural firm Brandsberg Dahls-Arkitekter. The church seats about 280 people.^[1]^[2]

The elementary school right besides it uses the building for classrooms, as the school does not have enough classrooms for all of the student body.

References

^ "Vedavågen kirke". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 4 October 2020.
^ "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 4 October 2020.