Nesset Church


Nesset Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Molde Municipality in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. It is located in the village of Eidsvåg. It is the church for the Nesset parish which is part of the Indre Romsdal prosti in the Diocese of Møre. The white, wooden church was built in a long church style in 1878 by the architect Johannes Henrik Nissen. The church seats about 250 people.

History

The earliest existing historical records of the church for the Nesset parish date back to 1589, but there are records of the archbishop visiting the parish back to 1426. The original church was located at the village of Rød, about west of the present location of the church. The main body of the old church was about that was a stave church design and it had a choir and sacristy that were timber-framed. In the 1870s, the parish decided to move the church a few kilometers to the east, to the village of Eidsvåg, the municipal centre. A new church was constructed there in 1878. The old church at Rød was torn down in 1885.

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