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Vår Frue Church

Vår Frue Church (Norwegian: Vår Frue kirke / English: Our Lady's Church) is a medieval parish church of the Church of Norway in Trondheim municipality in Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located in the downtown Midtbyen area of the city of Trondheim, just a few blocks north of the Nidaros Cathedral. It is one of the two churches for the Nidaros og Vår Frue parish which is part of the Nidaros domprosti (arch-deanery) in the Diocese of Nidaros. The gray, stone church was built in a long church design in the late 1100s using plans drawn up by Bjørn Sigvardsson. The church seats about 540 people.[1][2][3]

This article is about the church in Trondheim. For the church in Porsgrunn, see Vår Frue Church (Porsgrunn). For other churches of the same name, see Church of Our Lady.

Vår Frue Church

12th century

12th century

Active

c. 1180 (1180)

540

Stone

Nidaros og Vår Frue

Church

Automatically protected

Altar and altarpiece of Vår Frue kirke

Altar and altarpiece of Vår Frue kirke

Side view of Vår Frue kirke

Side view of Vår Frue kirke

Drawing of Vår Frue kirke with the old flat-roofed tower from c. 1770

Drawing of Vår Frue kirke with the old flat-roofed tower from c. 1770

Pulpit at Vår Frue kirke

Pulpit at Vår Frue kirke

View of the organ and back of the church

View of the organ and back of the church

Location on old maps

Location on old maps

View of the door

View of the door

Roccoco wall

Roccoco wall

Front of the church

Front of the church

Bell tower

Bell tower

List of churches in Nidaros

Ekroll, Øystein (1997). Med kleber og kalk – Norsk steinbygging i mellomalderen (in Norwegian). Oslo: Det Norske Samlaget.  8252147542.

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Vår Frue kirke Official Website

Vår Frue kirke (Trondheim) picture gallery