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Havøysund Church
Havøysund
Church
is a
parish church
of the
Church of Norway
in
Måsøy Municipality
in
Troms og Finnmark
county
,
Norway
. It is located in
the village
of Havøysund on
the island
of
Havøya
. It is the main
church
for the Måsøy
parish
which is part of the
Hammerfest prosti
in the
Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland
.
Like most other churches in
Finnmark
, Havøysund church was
burned
down by the
Germans
during the
evacuation of Finnmark
in 1944. The
new church
was built of
whitewashed
concrete
and
dark
wooden
timbers
in a
long church
style
in
1960
by the
architect
Esben Poulsson
.
The church
seats
about
300
people
.
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