Hundvåkøy Church

Hundvåkøy Church (Norwegian: Hundvåkøy kirke) is an annex chapel of the Church of Norway in Austevoll Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Austevollshella on the island of Hundvåko. It is one of the five churches for the Austevoll parish which is part of the Fana prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, concrete and wood chapel was built in a long church design in 1990 using plans drawn up by the architectural firm Planconsult based in Storebø. The chapel seats about 220 people.^[1]

Hundvåkøy Church
Hundvåkøy kirke
View of the church
60°06′17″N 5°10′11″E / 60.1047°N 5.1698°E / 60.1047; 5.1698
Location	Austevoll Municipality, Vestland
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status	Chapel
Founded	1990
Consecrated	1990
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Planconsult A/S
Architectural type	Long church
Completed	1990 (34 years ago) (1990)
Specifications
Materials	Concrete and wood
Administration
Diocese	Bjørgvin bispedømme
Deanery	Fana prosti
Parish	Austevoll

History

Austevoll Church was located on the island of Hundvåko for over 200 years before it was moved to Storebø on a nearby island in 1891. The people living at the old church site were not happy about losing their local church. In the 1960s, planning began to build an annex chapel at the site of the old church. After lots of planning and fundraising, work on the new chapel began in 1989. The architectural firm Planconsult A/S was hired to design the new chapel. Nearly 100 years later, in 1990, a new chapel was completed on the old church site on Hundvåko.^[2]

See also

• List of churches in Bjørgvin

References

1. "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 17 May 2020.
2. Storsletten, Ola. "Hundvåkøy kapell" (in Norwegian). Norges Kirker. Retrieved 14 November 2021.