Neiden Chapel

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'''Neiden Chapel''' ({{langx|no|Neiden kapell}}) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Sør-Varanger Municipality in Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Neiden. It is one of the churches for the Sør-Varanger parish which is part of the Varanger prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The red and white, wooden church was built in a long church format in the style called ''dragestil'' in 1902 by the architect Karl Norum. The church seats about 155 people.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Oversikt over Nåværende Kirker |url=http://www.kirkekonsulenten.no/kirker.htm |access-date=2018-05-14 |publisher=KirkeKonsulenten.no |language=Norwegian}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Neiden kapell |url=https://kirkesok.no/kirke/203000201 |access-date=2013-03-08 |publisher=Kirkesøk: Kirkebyggdatabasen |language=Norwegian}}</ref>

==History== In 1898, many farmers in Neiden made a request to the Ministry of Church and Education to have a church and a cemetery built in Neiden. Only four years later, the church was finished. The residents' desire to have a church coincided with the government's desire to secure the border from Finnish-Russian expansion, and a Norwegian church near the border would help. Architect Karl Norum was very keen on old Norwegian stave churches, and he created a dragestil building that would be an expression of Norwegian culture and national cohesion in a border area. The chapel had 155 seats and it cost {{NOK|32,900}} at that time. The chapel was consecrated on 13 July 1902.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Kirker i Sør-Varanger sogn |url=http://www.vadso.kirken.no/index.phtml?pid=4251 |access-date=2013-03-08 |publisher=Vadsø prosti |language=Norwegian}}</ref>

===Russian Orthodox chapel=== left|thumb|The Russian Saint George chapel There is also a Russian Orthodox chapel located nearby in Neiden, built in the 16th century as a part of Russian Christianisation of the Skolt samis who were the inhabitants of the area at that time. {{clear left}}

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Category:Sør-Varanger Municipality Category:Churches in Finnmark Category:Wooden churches in Norway Category:20th-century Church of Norway church buildings Category:Churches completed in 1902 Category:1902 establishments in Norway Category:Long churches in Norway