Lenangsøyra Chapel
church in Lyngen, Norway
Lenangsøyra Chapel (Norwegian: Lenangsøyra kapell) is a parish church of the Church of Norway in Lyngen Municipality in Troms county, Norway. It is located in the village of Lenangsøyra on the Lyngen Peninsula. It is one of the churches for the Lyngen parish which is part of the Nord-Troms prosti (deanery) in the Diocese of Nord-Hålogaland. The white, concrete church was built in a fan-shaped style in 1996 to serve the northern part of the municipality of Lyngen. The church was designed by the architectural firm Arkibygg ved J. Gjerdrum. The church seats about 120 people.
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