Fosnes Chapel (Norwegian: Fosnes kapell) is a chapel of the Church of Norway in Namsos municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located at Fosnesvågen, on the northeastern coast of the island of Jøa. It is an annex chapel for the Fosnes parish which is part of the Namdal prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros. The white, wooden chapel was built in a long church style in 1926. The church seats about 45 people.[1] The church is not regularly used for services, but it is used for funerals at the adjacent cemetery. There is an annual worship service held at the chapel once each summer at Olsok.
^"Kirker i Namdal prosti" (in Norwegian). NRK. Retrieved 23 September 2011.
chapel once each summer at Olsok. For a long time, the church on the island of Jøa was located at Fosnes (along the Fosnavågen bay), where the Fosnes...
parish) is named after the old Fosnes farm (Old Norse: Fólgsnnes), since the first Fosnes Church was built there (FosnesChapel is now located on the site)...
2020, the national government approved a merger of three municipalities: Fosnes, Namdalseid, and Namsos. Upon the merger, the new municipality would have...
mainland of Fosnes on a small isthmus of land between the Foldafjord and the lake Salsvatnet. Salen Chapel is located in the village. "Salsnes, Fosnes (Trøndelag)"...
(Lierne, Grong, Overhalla, and Namsos) and Ytre Namdal prosti (Flatanger and Fosnes) were merged to form the new Namdal prosti (the parish of Snåsa, from Indre...
Arne Sørvig. The church seats about 204 people. The parish of Fosnes was served by the Fosnes Church for centuries until 1896 when it burned down. At that...
2020, the municipal borders were changed and this chapel became part of Namsos Municipality and the Fosnes parish. List of churches in Nidaros "Lund kapell...
served the whole Fosnes prestegjeld which included most of today's Namsos and Flatanger municipalities. The first church was located at Fosnes (along the Fosnavågen...
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the population of Vikten was 1,749. On 1 January 1881, a small area of Fosnes (population: 61) was transferred to Vikten. The name of the municipality...
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