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Gjøvik kirke
Kirkegata 9, 2821 Gjøvik
Gjøvik kirke is a wooden long church in Gjøvik municipality. It has approx. 500 seats, compared with the original 650.[1] The church was designed by Jacob Wilhelm Nordan and built in 1881–82, with its consecration on 1 November of the latter year. It replaced Gamle Hunn kirke, which had been built as recently as 1821 and was by no means dilapidated. It had admittedly ended up outside the municipal boundary (in what was then Vardal municipality) when Gjøvik became a market town in 1861, but the new municipality had an amicable agreement with Vardal about the use of the church.[2] The new Gjøvik kirke was financed with donations from Julie and Martin Engelhardt Hoff; in all, the building cost the Hoff couple 60.000 kroner.[3] It was made a condition that the old church be demolished and its materials reused.[4] The old church site is still in use as a cemetery, and a burial chapel with a crematorium has been built there. Today's Gjøvik kirke is down in the town. During the construction of the new church, the unfinished church tower collapsed in a storm at Christmas 1881.
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