Årnes kirke - Årnes, Norway
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stureth
N 60° 07.509 E 011° 28.299
32V E 637320 N 6667917
Årnes Church is situated on a hill not far from the railway station and Årnes center. It is the parent church in what was Årnes parish, which consisted of two parishes: Årnes and Auli.
Waymark Code: WMB8HY
Location: Viken, Norway
Date Posted: 04/19/2011
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It revolves around a neo-Gothic church in brick with 375 seats. The church has a rectangular nave, polygonalt ended choir and west tower. It's sacristy on the north side of the choir. The roof is tiled with slate.
Inside, the west gallery with organ, and the colors were set in 1954 at the suggestion of Find Krafft. The altarpiece, which shows Jesus in Gethsemane, was painted by Marie Sverdrup in 1911 after the Dresden painter Ludwig von Hoffman.
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10 800 people resigned, while barely 1800 joined The Church of Norway in 2009. There is an increase in the number of resignations of about 50 percent from the year before, while the number enrolled in the same year was nearly doubled. At the end of 2009/2010 was 79.2 per cent of the population member of The Church of Norway.