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The Cathedral of Our Lady [1] (Norwegian: Vår Frue domkirke), also commonly known as the Church of Our Lady, [2] is the Catholic cathedral of the city of Tromsø, Norway, [3] and seat of the prelature of the same name. It is the northernmost Catholic (and Christian in general) cathedral in the world. It is located on the Erling Bangsunds square.
That church was moved out of the city in 1860 to make way for the building of the present cathedral. The 1803 church building was relocated to an area a few hundred metres south of the city boundary. Then in the early 1970s, it was moved again to the present Elverhøy Church site further up the city’s hills.
Our Lady of the Sacred Heart Church, Wellingborough, Northamptonshire; Our Lady and St Edmund's Church, Abingdon, Oxfordshire; Shrine Church of Our Lady of Consolation and St Francis, West Grinstead, West Sussex; Church of our Lady: A Serbian Orthodox, Halifax, West Yorkshire; Our Lady and St Alphonsus Church, Hanley Swan, Worcestershire
The Catholic Church is the second largest religious community in Norway by number of registered members. The country is divided into three Church districts – the Diocese of Oslo and the prelatures of Trondheim and Tromsø, [6] whose bishops participate in the Nordic Bishops Conference. The country is further divided into 38 parishes and three ...
The groundbreaking of the church was on 1 April 1964, and it was completed in 1965. [1] The new church was consecrated on 19 November 1965 by Bishop Monrad Norderval. [2] The church is built out of cast-in-place aluminium-coated concrete panels. [3] The shape of the church is believed to be a reference to the nearby twin-peaked island of Håja. [6]
Elverhøy Church (Norwegian: Elverhøy kirke) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Tromsø Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the city of Tromsø. It is the church for the Elverhøy parish which is part of the Tromsø domprosti (arch-deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The church was built in its current ...
Tromsø Cathedral, Norway's only wooden cathedral, built in 1861, is located in the middle of the city, and so is the small Catholic church Vår Frue ("Our Lady"). Northern Europe's oldest cinema still in use, Verdensteatret, was built in 1915–16.
The Church of Our Lady of Good Hope (French: Église Notre-Dame-de-Bonne-Espérance) is an historic Carpenter Gothic-style Roman Catholic church building located on a bluff overlooking the Mackenzie River in Fort Good Hope, Northwest Territories, Canada.