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Davik Church, the Glossary

Davik Church (Davik kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Bremanger Municipality in Vestland county, Norway.^[1]

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Altar rail

The altar rail (also known as a communion rail or chancel rail) is a low barrier, sometimes ornate and usually made of stone, wood or metal in some combination, delimiting the chancel or the sanctuary and altar in a church, from the nave and other parts that contain the congregation.

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Architect

An architect is a person who plans, designs, and oversees the construction of buildings.

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Architecture

Architecture is the art and technique of designing and building, as distinguished from the skills associated with construction.

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Baluster

A baluster is an upright support, often a vertical moulded shaft, square, or lathe-turned form found in stairways, parapets, and other architectural features.

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Bishop

A bishop is an ordained member of the clergy who is entrusted with a position of authority and oversight in a religious institution.

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Bremanger

Bremanger is a municipality in Vestland county, Norway.

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Catholic Church

The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.28 to 1.39 billion baptized Catholics worldwide as of 2024.

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Chancel

In church architecture, the chancel is the space around the altar, including the choir and the sanctuary (sometimes called the presbytery), at the liturgical east end of a traditional Christian church building.

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Church of Norway

The Church of Norway (Den norske kirke, Den norske kyrkja, Norgga girku, Nöörjen gærhkoe) is an evangelical Lutheran denomination of Protestant Christianity and by far the largest Christian church in Norway.

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Churches in Norway

Church building in Norway began when Christianity was established there around the year 1000.

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Constitution of Norway

The Constitution of Norway (complete name: The Constitution of the Kingdom of Norway; Danish: Kongeriget Norges Grundlov; Norwegian Bokmål: Kongeriket Norges Grunnlov; Norwegian Nynorsk: Kongeriket Noregs Grunnlov) was adopted on 16 May and signed on 17 May 1814 by the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll.

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Copper

Copper is a chemical element; it has symbol Cu and atomic number 29.

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Cruciform

Cruciform is a term for physical manifestations resembling a common cross or Christian cross.

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Davik (village)

Davik is a village in Bremanger Municipality in Vestland county, Norway. Davik Church and Davik (village) are Bremanger.

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Deanery

A deanery (or decanate) is an ecclesiastical entity in the Roman Catholic Church, the Eastern Orthodox Church, the Anglican Communion, the Evangelical Church in Germany, and the Church of Norway.

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Diocese of Bjørgvin

The Diocese of Bjørgvin (Bjørgvin bispedømme) is one of the 11 dioceses that make up the Church of Norway.

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Eidsvoll

Eidsvoll (sometimes written as Eidsvold) is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway.

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Election church

An election church (valgkirke) is a term used for approximately 300 churches in Norway that were used as polling stations during the elections to the Norwegian Constituent Assembly at Eidsvoll in 1814. Davik Church and election church are Norwegian election church.

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Georg Andreas Bull

Georg Andreas Bull (26 March 1829 – 1 February 1917) was a Norwegian architect and chief building inspector in Christiania (now Oslo) for forty years.

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List of churches in Bjørgvin

The list of churches in Bjørgvin is a list of the Church of Norway churches in the Diocese of Bjørgvin in Norway. Davik Church and list of churches in Bjørgvin are churches in Vestland.

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Lutheranism

Lutheranism is a major branch of Protestantism that identifies primarily with the theology of Martin Luther, the 16th-century German monk and reformer whose efforts to reform the theology and practices of the Catholic Church ended the Middle Ages and, in 1517, launched the Reformation.

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Nave

The nave is the central part of a church, stretching from the (normally western) main entrance or rear wall, to the transepts, or in a church without transepts, to the chancel.

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Nordfjorden (Vestland)

Nordfjorden is the sixth longest fjord in Norway. Davik Church and Nordfjorden (Vestland) are Bremanger.

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Norway

Norway (Norge, Noreg), formally the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic country in Northern Europe, situated on the Scandinavian Peninsula.

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Norwegian Constituent Assembly

The Norwegian Constituent Assembly (Grunnlovsforsamlingen or Riksforsamlingen) is the name given to the 1814 constitutional assembly that adopted the Norwegian Constitution and formalised the dissolution of the union with Denmark.

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Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage

The Directorate for Cultural Heritage (Riksantikvaren or Direktoratet for kulturminneforvaltning) is a government agency responsible for the management of cultural heritage in Norway.

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Parish

A parish is a territorial entity in many Christian denominations, constituting a division within a diocese.

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Parish church

A parish church (or parochial church) in Christianity is the church which acts as the religious centre of a parish.

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Pew

A pew is a long bench seat or enclosed box, used for seating members of a congregation or choir in a church, synagogue or sometimes a courtroom.

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Pipe organ

The pipe organ is a musical instrument that produces sound by driving pressurised air (called wind) through the organ pipes selected from a keyboard.

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Prestegjeld

A prestegjeld was a geographic and administrative area within the Church of Norway (Den Norske Kirke) roughly equivalent to a parish.

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Sacredness

Sacred describes something that is dedicated or set apart for the service or worship of a deity; is considered worthy of spiritual respect or devotion; or inspires awe or reverence among believers.

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Spire

A spire is a tall, slender, pointed structure on top of a roof of a building or tower, especially at the summit of church steeples.

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Stave church

A stave church is a medieval wooden Christian church building once common in north-western Europe.

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Steeple

In architecture, a steeple is a tall tower on a building, topped by a spire and often incorporating a belfry and other components.

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Timber framing

Timber framing and "post-and-beam" construction are traditional methods of building with heavy timbers, creating structures using squared-off and carefully fitted and joined timbers with joints secured by large wooden pegs.

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Turret (architecture)

In architecture, a turret is a small tower that projects vertically from the wall of a building such as a medieval castle.

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Vanylven Church

Vanylven Church (Vanylven kyrkje) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in the municipality of Vanylven in Møre og Romsdal county, Norway. Davik Church and Vanylven Church are 19th-century Church of Norway church buildings.

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Vestibule (architecture)

A vestibule (also anteroom, antechamber, or foyer) is a small room leading into a larger space such as a lobby, entrance hall, or passage, for the purpose of waiting, withholding the larger space from view, reducing heat loss, providing storage space for outdoor clothing, etc.

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Vestland

Vestland is a county in Norway established on 1 January 2020.

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Vestry

A vestry was a committee for the local secular and ecclesiastical government of a parish in England, Wales and some English colonies, which originally met in the vestry or sacristy of the parish church, and consequently became known colloquially as the "vestry".

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Waldemar Hvoslef

Waldemar Hvoslef (17 March 1825 – 5 May 1906) was a Norwegian Lutheran bishop.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Davik_Church

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