King Oscar II Chapel

King Oscar II Chapel (Norwegian: Kong Oscar IIs kapell) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located near the village of Grense Jakobselv, about 500 metres (1,600 ft) from the border with Russia. It is the church for the Sør-Varanger parish which is part of the Varanger prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The stone church was built in a long church style in 1869 by the architect Jacob Wilhelm Nordan (1824–1892). The church seats about 72 people.[1] [2] [3]

King Oscar II Chapel
Kong Oscar IIs kapell
View of the church
King Oscar II Chapel
Location of the church
King Oscar II Chapel
King Oscar II Chapel (Norway)
69.7849°N 30.8121°E / 69.7849; 30.8121
LocationSør-Varanger, Troms og Finnmark
CountryNorway
DenominationChurch of Norway
ChurchmanshipEvangelical Lutheran
History
StatusParish church
Consecrated26 September 1869
Architecture
Functional statusActive
Architect(s)Jacob Wilhelm Nordan
Architectural typeLong church
Completed1869
Specifications
Capacity72
MaterialsStone
Administration
ParishSør-Varanger
DeaneryVaranger prosti
DioceseNord-Hålogaland

History

In 1851, the Norwegian settlement in the Grense Jakobselv area had a strong desire to have its own chapel. However, it was politics that would accelerate the work of construction. In 1826, the demarcation of the Norway–Russia border was completed. However, there were still disagreements between the Norwegian authorities and Russian fishermen on the national border (the Jakobselva river) after that time. After reporting several harsh confrontations between Norwegian and Russian fishermen, the County Governor of Finnmark wanted to let a naval ship from the Royal Norwegian Navy to undertake fisheries surveillance during the months with the heaviest fishing.[4]

The Interior Department wanted an independent investigation of the circumstances and sent Lieutenant Commander Georg Heyerdahl (1798–1853) north to familiarize themselves with the case. Heyerdahl did not share the county Governor's views on which solution. He proposed instead to erect a chapel at Grense Jakobselv. A Lutheran chapel would be an indisputable boundary marking, such as the Russian Orthodox chapel in Boris Gleb that had been used for border demarcation in 1826. In 1865 it was decided to build a chapel and parsonage at the border. In the summer of 1869, the new chapel was built and on 26 September the same year, the chapel was consecrated by Waldemar Hvoslef (1825–1906), Bishop of the Diocese of Bjørgvin.[5] [6] [7]

Name

In 1873, King Oscar II of Sweden and Norway visited the chapel, and to commemorate this visit, he bestowed this chapel with a marble slab with the bilingual inscriptions: Kong Oscar II hørte Guds ord her den 4de Juli 1873 (Norwegian language) and Gonagas Oscar II gulai Ibmel sane dobe dam 4 ad Juli 1873 (Northern Sami language) which means "King Oscar II heard the words of God here on the 4th of July 1873". At the same time, he expressed a desire to name the chapel after himself, and so the members of the congregation made a name plate for him that still hangs over the door.[5]

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gollark: It also does have the whole "anything which implements the right functions implements an interface" thing, which seems very horrible to me as a random change somewhere could cause compile errors with no good explanation.
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See also
  • List of churches in Finnmark

References
  1. "Kong Oscar IIs kapell". Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  2. "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 2018-05-14.
  3. Jens Christian Eldal. "Jacob Wilhelm Nordan". Norsk kunstnerleksikon. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  4. Svein Askheim. "Grense Jakobselv". Store norske leksikon. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  5. "Kirker i Sør-Varanger sogn" (in Norwegian). Vadsø prosti. Retrieved 2013-03-07.
  6. "Georg Carl Buonaparte Heyerdahl". Norsk senter for forskningsdata AS. Retrieved September 1, 2018.
  7. Hallgeir Elstad. "Waldemar Hvoslef". Norsk biografisk leksikon. Retrieved September 1, 2018.

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