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Laksevåg Church

1875 establishments in Norway19th-century Church of Norway church buildingsChurches completed in 1875Churches in BergenLong churches in Norway
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Laksevåg Church (Norwegian: Laksevåg kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bergen Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. It is located in the borough of Laksevåg in the city of Bergen. It is the church for the Laksevåg parish which is part of the Bergen domprosti (arch-deanery) in the Diocese of Bjørgvin. The white, wooden church was built in a long church design in 1875 using plans drawn up by the architects Peter Andreas Blix and Theodor August Fromholz. The church seats about 432 people.

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Laksevåg Church
Damsgårdsveien, Bergen Damsgård (Laksevåg)

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Damsgårdsveien
5160 Bergen, Damsgård (Laksevåg)
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