Hosanger Church


Hosanger Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Osterøy Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hosanger on the northern shore of the island of Osterøy. It is the church for the Hosanger parish which is part of the Åsane prosti in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, stone church was built in a rectangular style in 1796 by the "leading men" of the parish. The church seats about 275 people.

History

There has been a church at Hosanger since the Middle Ages. The earliest existing historical records of the church date back to the year 1329, but it wasn't built that year. The first church at Hosanger was likely a stave church. That church was replaced at some unknown time by a timber-framed church. A report from 1686 described as "very run down" because of poor exterior maintenance, which suggests that the church, at that time was already relatively old. At Christmas 1795, lightning struck the church and it burned down. A new stone church was built on the same site the following year. That stone church was renovated and enlarged from 1863–65 and again from 1962–64.

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