Kjøllefjord Church


Kjøllefjord Church is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Lebesby Municipality in Troms og Finnmark county, Norway. It is located in the village of Kjøllefjord. It is one of the churches in the Lebesby parish which is part of the Hammerfest prosti in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The white, stone church was built in a long church style in 1951 on the basis of designs by architect Finn Bryn. The church seats about 300 people.
This was the first church which was rebuilt in Finnmark county after the end in the Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany when the retreating German army had destroyed much of the infrastructure in Finnmark. The funding for the church was from the Kingdom of Denmark which gave it as a gift to help with the rebuilding after World War II.