Akureyrarkirkja
Sign in to saveAkureyrarkirkja (, regionally also ) or The Church of Akureyri is a prominent Lutheran church at Akureyri in northern Iceland. Located in the centre of the city, it was designed by Guðjón Samúelsson (1887–1950) and completed in 1940.
Key facts
- Church.name
- The Church of Akureyri
- Church.native_name
- Akureyrarkirkja
- Church.native_name_lang
- is
- Church.image
- Akureyrarkirkja - panoramio (1).jpg
- Church.image_size
- 280
- Church.caption
- Akureyrarkirkja
- Church.location
- Akureyri
- Church.country
- Iceland
- Church.denomination
- Church of Iceland
- Church.status
- Parish church
- Church.completed date
- 1940
- Church.architect
- Guðjón Samúelsson
- Church.functional_status
- Active
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- church building
- Religion
- Church of Iceland
- Country
- Iceland
- Located in
- Akureyri
- Official website
- akirkja.is
- Image
- Akureyri, Iceland.jpg
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- Commons category
- Akureyrarkirkja
- architect
- Guðjón Samúelsson
- inception
- 1940-00-00
- architectural style
- Art Nouveau architecture
- Christian liturgical rite
- Roman Rite
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Akureyrarkirkja (, regionally also ) or The Church of Akureyri is a prominent Lutheran church at Akureyri in northern Iceland. Located in the centre of the city, it was designed by Guðjón Samúelsson (1887–1950) and completed in 1940.
Akureyrarkirkja contains a notably large 3,200-pipe organ. The bas-reliefs on the nave balcony are by sculptor Ásmundur Sveinsson (1893–1982). The altarpiece dates to 1863 and was designed by Danish artist Edvard Lehmann (1815–1892). The windows were designed and made by J. Wippel & Co. of Exeter, Devon in Britain. The Italian white marble baptismal font is made by Florentine sculptor Corrado Vigni (1888–1956). The angel baptismal font is a replica of a work by noted Danish sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844). The original work is situated at Copenhagen Cathedral (Vor Frue Kirke).
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Akureyrarkirkja” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.
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