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Gimsøy church
Skien, Norway, Norway
Gimsøy Church in Skien, Norway, is a modest gray stone parish church built in 1922 as a chapel to serve the expanding Gimsøy neighborhood, designed in a long church style by architect Gunnar Nordby with an apse and sacristy, seating about 200 worshippers. It emerged after Skien's 1916 growth prompted a local cemetery in 1919 and this chapel about 750 meters southwest of the medieval Gimsøy Abbey site on what was once Klosterøya island in the Farelva river. The abbey, Norway's earliest known convent founded around 1100-1150 by Dag Eilivsson and his wife after his crusade, amassed estates until Reformation dissolution in 1537, with nuns evicted by 1540 and buildings burned in 1546, leaving no traces today.
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Klokkergata 16, 3733 Skien, Norway
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