Vågan kirke
Also known as Lofotkatedralen
1898
Gothic Revival
church
Vågan kirke stands on open ground at Kjerkvågen, about a kilometer east of Kabelvåg, and seats around 1 200 people in a parish of a few hundred. The size was a legal requirement, not an ambition: a royal resolution of 1895 obliged a…
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- 1898
Carl Julius Bergstrøm
- 2008
A condition survey was carried out and the church was then put in order on the strength of it, with repairs, maintenance to the fabric and improved wheelchair access. BOARCH arkitekter drew the work, which was directed at what the survey…
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- Gerd Eichmann · CC BY-SA 4.0
- Celia Hammer · Public domain
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