Hellevik Chapel

Hellevik Chapel (Norwegian: Hellevik bedehuskapell) is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Fjaler Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the village of Hellevik, on the southern shore of the Dalsfjorden. It is an annex chapel in the Fjaler parish which is part of the Sunnfjord prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white chapel was built in a long church design in 1978. The chapel seats about 120 people.^[1]

Hellevik Chapel
Hellevik bedehuskapell
View of the chapel
61.30194°N 5.158611°E / 61.30194; 5.158611
Location	Fjaler Municipality, Vestland
Country	Norway
Denomination	Church of Norway
Churchmanship	Evangelical Lutheran
History
Status	Chapel
Founded	1978
Consecrated	1 October 1978
Architecture
Functional status	Active
Architect(s)	Johannes Brendehaug and Jonas Lone
Architectural type	Long church
Completed	1978 (46 years ago) (1978)
Specifications
Capacity	120
Materials	Wood
Administration
Diocese	Bjørgvin bispedømme
Deanery	Sunnfjord prosti
Parish	Fjaler

History

The planning process is said to have taken forty years, with the first fundraising held in the middle of the 1930s. The plot was donated in 1965, the basement floor was ready in 1977. The white chapel with a red roof was completed and consecrated on 1 October 1978 by the local Dean Anders Myklebust. Two local men, John Brendehaug and Jonas Lone, were the architects. The chapel was built at a time when Hellevik belonged to Holmedal parish, with the parish church (Holmedal Church) on the north side of the fjord. In 1991, when the north side of Holmedal was transferred to Askvoll Municipality, Hellevik Chapel was incorporated in Fjaler parish.^[2][3]

See also

• List of churches in Bjørgvin

References

1. "Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker" (in Norwegian). KirkeKonsulenten.no. Retrieved 16 November 2019.
2. Henden Aaraas, Margrethe; Vengen, Sigurd; Gjerde, Anders. "Hellevik bedehuskapell" (in Norwegian). Fylkesarkivet. Retrieved 25 September 2021.
3. "Hellevik bedehuskapell". Norges-Kirker.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 25 September 2021.