Mesnali Church

{{short description|Church in Innlandet, Norway}} {{Infobox church |name = Mesnali Church |full_name = Mesnali kirke |former_name = |image = Mesnali kirke.JPG |caption = View of the church |website = |coordinates = {{coord|61.10258795048|10.69237813353|region:NO_type:landmark|display=inline,title|format=dms}} |location = [[Ringsaker Municipality]],<br />[[Innlandet]] |country = [[Norway]] |churchmanship = [[Evangelical Lutheran]] |denomination = [[Church of Norway]] |diocese = [[Diocese of Hamar|Hamar bispedømme]] |deanery = [[Ringsaker prosti]] |parish = Brøttum |status = [[Parish church]] |functional_status = Active |founded = 1933 |consecrated = 19 September 1933 |completed = {{Start date and age|p=y|1933}} |closed = |events = |architect = [[Ingeborg Krafft]] |architectural_type = [[Churches in Norway#Floor plan|Cruciform]] |style = |materials = Wood |capacity = 170 |embedded = {{Norwegian Cultural Heritage Site |embed = yes |Type = Church |Status = Protected |ID = 84941 }} }}

'''Mesnali Church''' ({{langx|no|Mesnali kirke}}) is a [[parish church]] of the [[Church of Norway]] in [[Ringsaker Municipality]] in [[Innlandet]] county, [[Norway]]. It is located in the village of [[Mesnali]]. It is one of the churches for the Brøttum [[parish]] which is part of the [[Ringsaker prosti]] ([[deanery]]) in the [[Diocese of Hamar]]. The brown, wooden church was built in a [[Churches in Norway#Floor plan|cruciform]] design in 1933 using plans drawn up by the [[architect]] Ingeborg Krafft. The church seats about 170 people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Mesnali kirke |url=https://kirkesok.no/kirke/041200801 |access-date=2022-01-07 |publisher=Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker |url=http://www.kirkekonsulenten.no/kirker.htm |access-date=2022-01-07 |publisher=KirkeKonsulenten.no |language=Norwegian}}</ref>

==History== The people of the [[Mesnali]] area had long wished for their own chapel due to the long and difficult road to their parish church, [[Brøttum Church]]. A plot of land at Havrehaugen was donated to the parish by Oline and Even Sagstuen for the purpose of building an [[annex chapel]] in the Brøttum Church parish. Initially, a bell tower was erected in 1927 and a cemetery on the site was [[consecrated]] on 11 December 1928. Soon afterwards, [[Ingeborg Krafft]] was hired to design the new chapel that would be built at the cemetery site. The building was designed as a [[half-timbered]] [[Churches in Norway#Floor plan|cruciform]] chapel in a style reminiscent of the many cruciform churches in the [[Gudbrandsdalen]] valley. The foundation wall of the new chapel was built in 1932 and the rest of the building was completed the following year. The new building was [[consecrated]] on 19 September 1933. In 1978, the chapel was upgraded to full [[parish church]] status.<ref name="kms">{{Cite web |title=Mesnali kirkested |url=http://www.kulturminnesok.no/kulturminnesok/kulturminne/?LOK_ID=84941 |access-date=2022-01-07 |publisher=[[Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage]] |language=Norwegian}}</ref><ref name="NK">{{Cite web |title=Mesnali kirke |url=https://www.norske-kirker.net/home/hedmark/mesnali-kirke/ |access-date=2022-01-07 |website=Norges-Kirker.no |language=Norwegian}}</ref>

==Media gallery== <gallery mode="packed" heights="180px"> Mesnali kirke 0412-16288.jpg|Photo of the construction of the new church Mesnali kirke 1933 0412-11686.jpg Mesnali kirke - no-nb digifoto 20150227 00281 NB MIT FNR 00541.jpg </gallery>

==See also== *[[List of churches in Hamar]]

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[[Category:Churches in Ringsaker Municipality]] [[Category:Churches in Innlandet]] [[Category:Cruciform churches in Norway]] [[Category:Wooden churches in Norway]] [[Category:20th-century Church of Norway church buildings]] [[Category:Churches completed in 1933]] [[Category:1933 establishments in Norway]]